The Globalist

Trump has hit upon a unique vulnerability in mainstream U.S. politics on race and cannot be dislodged.

The dynamic between White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and President Trump harkens back to the Yeltsin-Putin dynamic of the late 1990s.

China has established a seven-decade-long record of strategic caution and a preference for diplomatic and paramilitary rather than military solutions to national security problems.

With its short-term focus on what currently occupies the American mind (North Korea), the U.S. is actually playing into China’s hands in Asia.

In recent years, many American leaders have grown cavalier about nuclear war, especially with Russia, but there is also risk of a devastating conflict with China.

Trumpism, like most radical right-wing movements, is fueled by resentment, not economics. Trump voters are like Russians voting for Putin.

What role does Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank, and financier of the Trumps and Kushners, play in the potential downfall of the U.S. President?

Where Donald Trump is undisciplined and entertaining, Mike Pence is very disciplined and boring. But that discipline will not benefit the Americans at large.

There is no military solution to the war in Afghanistan. The solution to the debacle lies with the Afghan tribes.

There is no “smoking gun” yet.