Christopher R. Hill

People listen as names are read off a list of who will cross into the United States to begin the process of applying for asylum Thursday, July 26, 2018, near the San Ysidro port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico. As the Trump administration faced a court-imposed deadline Thursday to reunite thousands of children and parents who were forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, asylum seekers continue to arrive to cities like Tijuana, hoping to plead their cases with U.S. authorities. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Hill: Playing into Trump鈥檚 immigration trap

July 30, 2018 at 2:59 p.m.

Donald Trump鈥檚 presidency reminds me of nothing so much as the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s. At the height of the violence, a Serb friend said to me that,...

Hill: What to expect from the Trump-Kim summit

May 12, 2018 at 12:34 a.m.

Since the April 27 summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-un, US President Donald Trump has sought, unsurprisingly, to portray himself as the...

A Syrian boy runs past a destroyed building during airstrikes by regime forces in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on Tuesday. Hundreds have been killed by bombing in Syria's Eastern Ghouta region this week.

Hill: As Syria’s conflict flares, where does the U.S. stand?

February 23, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

If the Trump administration wants to show leadership in Syria, it should start by consulting the other regional powers to understand their interests and determine if they can be reconciled.

An Iraqi woman holds up her hand and shows a purple finger, indicating she has just voted, as she leaves a polling station in Az Zubayr, southern Iraq, on Jan. 30, 2005. Iraqis were voting in their country's first free election in a half-century.

Giving democracy the finger

January 5, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

Democracy is an exceedingly complex system, and free elections are only one feature. Elections are a necessary but insufficient condition of democracy, which also requires durable institutions that embody democratic...

Hill: Is liberal democracy in retreat?

March 6, 2017 at 9:31 a.m.

Having already come under siege in many of its outposts around the world, is liberal democracy now at risk of losing its citadel -- the United States -- too?

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