Tharoor: Trump’s lose-lose game in Syria
This seeming callousness is a signature theme of Trump's foreign policy. But the developments of the past couple of months point to a longer-term failure.
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Guest Commentary: Trump sells out the Kurds in his own unique way
Already locked in a heated impeachment battle, President Donald Trump found a new way to rile Washington this week. Late Sunday, the White House announced that it would not impede...
Guest Commentary: Trump axes Bolton, the hawk he brought to the White House
When President Donald Trump tapped John Bolton to be his third national security adviser in two years, the veteran foreign policy official was already widely seen as a polarizing figure....
Tharoor: Trump and Xi lock horns — and drag the world with them
Just this April, Trump suggested an "epic" trade deal with China was still at hand. Now, the only thing that's epic is the deepening rift between the world's two biggest...
Tharoor: Trump now owns the Yemen war
For a time, President Donald Trump could plausibly say this wasn't just his fight. The previous administration of Barack Obama tacitly greenlit the 2015 Saudi intervention into what was then...
Tharoor: France’s protests mark a broader crisis for Western democracy
French President Emmanuel Macron likes to present himself to the world as the suave centrist who can hold the line against the anger of the fringes. But at home, he's...
Guest commentary: Bolsonaro’s politics of anger mark a return to Brazil’s past
The new leader of Latin America's biggest democracy and economy doesn't care about your feelings. That is, unless you share his rage at leftists, apparent scorn for women, homosexuals and...
Tharoor: Trump’s dangerous obsession with Iran
In America's fevered political landscape, supporters of President Donald Trump often cast criticism of him as a symptom of a condition: "Trump derangement syndrome."
Tharoor: Cuba heads toward a post-Castro future, with or without Trump
It's an end of an era in Havana. On Wednesday, Vice president, Miguel Diaz-Canel is to become the first non-Castro to lead the Caribbean nation since Marxist revolutionaries swept to...
Tharoor: Military parades are about ego and power. Of course Trump wants one.
We must now contemplate President Donald Trump's excitement for the sort of martial display these days more associated with single-party states and autocrats.