Jonathan Stevenson

How Trump Sabotaged Ukraine

Even as he promoted a fiction of Kyiv’s interference in US politics, the president was busy meddling himself. What his own adviser called a “drug deal” paved Putin’s way.

Not So Great Britain

The UK’s hapless part in the US-Australian submarine deal exemplifies the post-Brexit nation’s problem: how to stay relevant in world affairs after jilting its biggest trade and diplomatic partner, the EU.

How Can We Neutralize the Militias?

The threat of violence from domestic far-right extremists calls for a measured and well-coordinated response from law enforcement and intelligence services.

The National Security Counselor

“Entrenched constraints would have been damn useful in preventing Trump from heedlessly tearing down the US-led postwar liberal order.”

Trump’s Lingering Menace

A seditious president who fomented an insurrection in the Capitol remains the commander-in-chief of the US military. That is an intolerably dangerous situation.

Trump’s Praetorian Guard

President Trump is attempting to turn “law and order versus anarchy” into an election issue that will distract voters from the White House’s incompetence.

Revenge Served Tepid

John Bolton’s ‘The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir’

With Flynn, Barr Burns Justice

The overarching, longer-term danger of Trump’s Flynn gambit is the entrenched degradation of the Justice Department as an institution.

ISIS After Baghdadi

Hatred on the March

Iran: The Case Against War

Long wars begin with the conviction that they will be short

A Different Kind of Emergency

Trump is severely straining existing limitations on using the military in a domestic emergency

‘My Button Works!’

Will Trump try to start a catastrophic war, and what safeguards exist to constrain him if he does?

Clarification

Dereliction of Duty?

H.R. McMaster should know better than to follow this president into policy hell.

A New Plan for Syria

The most realistic short-term US policy goal in Syria is to find ways to limit the areas of the country in direct conflict. This goal is not as far-fetched as it sounds, and there is already a basis for pursuing it.