Tag: global affairs

• Trump’s America: Aggrieved and Adoring Voices From Inside the Presidential Bubble

  November 11, 2018

  Trump’s America: Aggrieved and Adoring Voices From Inside the Presidential Bubble HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — In two years, President Trump has reshaped the idea of America for his supporters. They repeat… more ›

• The Future of U.S. Special Operations Forces

  November 2, 2018

      U.S. special operations forces are doing more things in more places than ever before. They are now active in some seventy countries and, since 2001, have seen their… more ›

• Globalization Is Not in Retreat

  June 3, 2018

  Globalization Is Not in Retreat » By many standard measures, globalization is in retreat. The 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing recession brought an end to three decades of rapid… more ›

• State of the World 2018: Bruce Sterling and Jon…

  January 6, 2018

  State of the World 2018: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky » 2017 was a nervous year of overwrought blustery political cultures, a year of normalized psychosis amplified by media distortion,… more ›

• The Death of Sergei Magnitsky (with Bill Browder)

  October 27, 2017

  The Death of Sergei Magnitsky (with Bill Browder) » more ›

• The Resistible Rise of Xi Jinping

  October 19, 2017

  The Resistible Rise of Xi Jinping » China’s 19th Party Congress began Wednesday with a three-and-a-half-hour speech by Xi Jinping, a telling sign of a man who knows he has… more ›

• Rex Tillerson at the Breaking Point

  October 7, 2017

  Rex Tillerson at the Breaking Point » One afternoon in late September, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called a meeting of the six countries that came together in 2015 to… more ›

• Putin’s Real Long Game

  June 24, 2017

  Putin’s Real Long Game » The world order we know is already over, and Russia is moving fast to grab the advantage. Can Trump figure out the new war in… more ›

• Why Did a Chinese Peroxide Company Pay $1 Billion…

  May 30, 2017

  Why Did a Chinese Peroxide Company Pay $1 Billion for a Talking Cat? » Inside the strange courtship between industrial behemoths and Western video game studios. Samo and Iza Login… more ›

• Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency

  November 19, 2016

  Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency » The morning after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Barack Obama summoned staff members to the Oval Office. Some were… more ›