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President Trump Can Tweet About World Leaders, But He Can't Assassinate Them

September 7, 2018 - 11:40 AM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright writes about the revelation in the new Bob Woodward book that, in 2017, Donald Trump suggested killing the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. [Read More]

A Palestinian Memoir to Counter Trump's Troubles in the Middle East

September 1, 2018 - 5:00 AM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright writes about Yousef Bashir's new memoir, "The Words of My Father," and what it tells us about the ongoing conflict in the Middle... [Read More]

ISIS Makes a Comeback—as Trump Opts to Stay in Syria

August 30, 2018 - 7:34 PM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright writes about how the Trump Administration has reversed course on intentions to pull U.S. troops out of Syria. [Read More]

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Picks a Very Strange Fight with Canada

August 8, 2018 - 5:42 PM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright writes about the fight between Mohammed bin Salman and the government of Canada over tweets and human rights. [Read More]

Waiting for a Box of Bones from North Korea

July 31, 2018 - 5:00 AM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright on the recent repatriation of the remains of fifty-five of American servicemen who died or were captured during the Korean War. [Read More]

The Trump Administration Struggles to Defend Its Unruly Foreign Policy

July 28, 2018 - 11:09 PM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright writes about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's statements about the Trump Administration's foreign policy and Trump's recent meetings with Vladimir Putin and Kim... [Read More]

No, Mr. President, Montenegro is Not Going to Start the Third World War

July 18, 2018 - 8:27 PM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright on the ignorance of Donald Trump's comments about NATO, Montenegro, and the risk of starting the Third World War. [Read More]

Trump Belittles NATO in the Run-Up to the Putin Summit

July 12, 2018 - 4:18 PM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright on Donald Trump's actions at the NATO summit, where he stunned allies by demanding that they double defense-spending commitments and calling Germany a... [Read More]

North Korea Declares U.S. Diplomacy "Gangster-Like"

July 8, 2018 - 3:41 PM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright discusses the first negotiations since the June 12th summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un, after which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo... [Read More]

Will Trump Get Played by Putin?

June 28, 2018 - 8:16 PM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright writes about Donald Trump's announcement that he will hold a summit with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, after meeting with NATO. [Read More]

Iran's Orwellian Arrest of Its Leading Female Human-Rights Lawyer

June 14, 2018 - 6:10 PM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright writes on Nasrin Sotoudeh, one of Iran's leading human-rights lawyers, who was arrested in Tehran. Security officials informed her that she had been... [Read More]

The Trump-Kim Summit: A Baffling Lack of Details

June 12, 2018 - 10:11 AM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright writes that the nuclear summit in Singapore between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un was heavy on promises but light on specifics. [Read More]

Feuding with Allies, Trump May Need Success in Singapore More than Kim

June 10, 2018 - 7:03 PM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright writes that President Trump is navigating two summits in five days—the G-7, in Canada, and the meeting with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong... [Read More]

Trump's Imploding World Order

May 25, 2018 - 11:47 AM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright writes about the failure of Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un's planned nuclear summit, and about Trump's view of the world. [Read More]

In a Testy Letter, Trump Cancels the North Korea Summit

May 23, 2018 - 7:15 PM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright writes about how Donald Trump's early confidence on dealing with North Korean aggression has butted up against the long-standing realities of the Kim... [Read More]

The End of the Iran Deal, and Trump's New, Confrontational Foreign Policy

May 13, 2018 - 5:00 AM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Big on headlines, brash in demands, but short on long-term strategy, his course risks failing in Iran, North Korea, and beyond. [Read More]

Trump Destroys the Iran Deal—and a Lot More

May 8, 2018 - 5:54 PM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright on President Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal, unravelling the Obama Administration's signature foreign-policy achievement and putting the... [Read More]

North Korea's Leader Was Funny, Charming, and Confident but Brought His Own Toilet

May 3, 2018 - 4:07 PM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright reports on the impression that North Korea's Kim Jong Un left on South Koreans after the recent inter-Korean summit. [Read More]

Why Trump's Boasts About the Korea Summit Are Premature

April 27, 2018 - 4:18 PM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright on the summit between the North Korean leader, Kim Jung Un, and South Korea's President, Moon Jae-in. [Read More]

Did Macron Just Charm Trump Into Compromising on Iran?

April 24, 2018 - 8:33 PM New Yorker - Robin Wright

Robin Wright on Donald Trump's meeting with the French President, Emmanuel Macron, after which he was almost conciliatory. He hinted that the United States and... [Read More]

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