Jessica T. Mathews

The Race That Can’t Be Won

A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one.

Losing No Time

In his first hundred days President Biden has been bold, decisive, and willing to take risks in his foreign policy judgments, but his early mistakes on Iran and Taiwan may have dangerous consequences.

Time for a New Approach to Foreign Affairs

Limited Nuclear War?

The New Nuclear Threat

A second nuclear arms race has begun—one that could be more dangerous than the first.

Do the Democrats Have a Foreign Policy?

To be sure, we badly need to repair the fractures in our democracy, but we will need an actual foreign policy as well.

America’s Indefensible Defense Budget

As a democracy, we are on an unusual and risky path.

What Happened in Hanoi?

With Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, the US–North Korean relationship right now is unpredictability squared.

Nuclear Disagreements

Singapore Sham

Stripped of its made-for-TV trappings, nothing was actually agreed to at the summit.

Will Trump Talk to Kim?

As Trump and Kim exchanged schoolyard taunts over the past year, few could have predicted that Kim would suddenly launch a diplomatic initiative.

The Iran Deal: What’s at Stake

Dealing with the Enemy

Iran, North Korea, and the US

Rhetorical bluster and military gestures only undermine US credibility.

Can China Replace the West?

Gideon Rachman’s ‘Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline from Obama to Trump and Beyond’

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

Trump & the World

The essence of his foreign policy has been remarkably consistent for decades

On the Election—IV

One way to evaluate people, a way not often given enough importance, is by a human test of the company they keep.

The Death of Our Treaties

Does Foreign Sexism Threaten Us?: An Exchange