Wilson, Trotsky, Assange: Lessons from the History of Diplomatic Transparency

For President Trump,...this war is an attempt to divert the attention and build on his campaign for the midterm election later this year.

[T]he Supreme Court may have just put another cog into to the president’s infernal machine.

Japanese and U.S. governments have decided on Japan's first lending and investment project in the U.S. ... up to $550 billion.

Trump’s potential advantage lies in leverage.

[T]he crisis of soft power risks accelerating the decline of [U.S.] power in the world, activating and speeding up centrifugal dynamics that might otherwise have taken years to fully manifest.

Trump knows time is running out: the clock on his second and final presidential term is ticking.

The fact that a united Europe is harder to deal with than a divided one is not something only Moscow understands; Washington is aware of it as well.