Exit by America

A few days ago, Pew Research released the results of public opinion surveys that show global perceptions of US leadership have plummeted, driven by President Trump’s poor handling of the pandemic. The report notes that Read More

The Monkey Cage ran an updated version of our article on international goods substitution and the World Health Organization. The reason, of course, was Trump’s announcement that he intends to cut all ties between the Read More

Dan joined Kate Kizer, Adam Mount, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Mena Ayazi, and A. Trevor Thrall for a panel on the future of, divisions among, and nature of progressive foreign policy. You can watch the video Read More

Abraham Newman and I have a new article in Foreign Policy on progressive policy and the use of American market power. We begin by discussing China’s ham-handed response to Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s tweet in support of Hong Kong democracy Read More

I have a piece in The Atlantic which is extremely critical of the mess that Trump has made of northeastern Syria. In fact, I argue that the whole episode encapsulates the reasons why Trump is Read More

Back in 2017, Dani Nedal and I wrote an article about Donald Trump’s claim that “unpredictability” is a good approach to conducting U.S. foreign policy. We looked closely at the logic behind it, and the Read More

A new article in Foreign Policy by Colum Lynch and Robbie Gramer does a great job of summing up two reasons that the United States is losing influence over international ordering. The first is long-term Read More