How Trump cleans up the Saudi mess
It’s a murky business. But the President can again prove his diplomatic skill
What the media aren’t telling you about Jamal Khashoggi
The dissident’s fate says a lot about Saudi Arabia and the rise of the mobster state
When it comes to Iran, Trump is surprisingly impotent
Post-Vietnam, the US has acted militarily like the proverbial school-yard bully, picking fights only with the weaklings who can’t fight back.
Trump escalates the anti-Iran rhetoric. But why now?
If we learned anything from the so-called Arab Spring, it’s that the victors in that part of the world are never the pro-Western ones we bet on.
Assad is back for good in Syria – and with Trump’s blessing
Amid the confusion and the almost deafening cries of treachery and collusion over Donald Trump’s relations with Russia, few noticed…
Forget the naysayers, Saudi’s crown prince is the real deal
In an interview this month, Mohammad bin Salman offered an extraordinarily frank assessment of how to combat terrorism. It means…
