America’s reluctance to prevent the Rwandan genocide was a policy failure on numerous fronts. In April 1994, ethnic Hutus began the systematic killing of their fellow countrymen, the Tutsis, in the sub-Saharan African country of Rwanda. Over...
Every American grows up hearing about something called the “American Dream” — a seemingly miraculous confluence of good fortune and dedication that only America can sustain. For those of you who thought that having a dream or being a dreamer...
House Speaker Paul Ryan is inching closer toward the same fate as his predecessor for failing to preempt the president’s deal with the Democrats. On September 6, Donald Trump announced his endorsement for Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy...
Donald Trump’s deal with the congressional Democratic leadership addressed his short-term challenges but set him up for some longer-term problems. President Donald Trump, the self-styled master of the “art of the deal,” turned a whopper...
At home and abroad, Donald Trump’s wealthy backers understand that his populist rhetoric is a masquerade. In 1993, I arrived one fall evening in the Romanian city of Cluj. The railway station was mysteriously full of people, and the city...
