In this TNR Live discussion, editor Michael Tomasky and three panelists discuss threats to democracy—from Trump 2024 to the crumbling international order.

Maybe it’s a sign that he knows his botched war has diminished his power. But he did add one caveat to his assent.

The Pentagon is talking about lining Eastern Europe with bases. We should let European governments do that.

The president needs to speak to the country about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in prime time.

John Mearsheimer and other foreign policy figures are treating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine like a game of Risk.

Putin alone is to blame for the war in Ukraine. Still, some opponents of NATO expansion were strikingly prescient.

A crisis in Ukraine has refocused his presidency. But he’s still trying to fill a Build Back Better Act–size hole in his domestic agenda.

Whenever global trouble boils, our foreign policy big shots say U.S. credibility is at stake unless we act. Alas, the record shows that acting is often where the problems start.

The United States cannot afford to put a foot wrong if it wants to prevent a war in Europe.

Yes, the Russian leader is an authoritarian aggressor. But different decisions at key points by the U.S. might have made him less so.

Joe Biden can’t let the U.S. get sucked into a possible Russia-Ukraine conflict. What he can do is help all sides save face.

Biden’s upcoming meeting with the Russian president is the perfect opportunity to shrink Russia’s outsize significance in American politics.

Why isn't anyone talking about North Macedonia's accession into America's most important strategic alliance?

After another two nights of Democratic debates, the 2020 field has spent little time on some of the presidency's most consequential challenges.

At the anniversary celebration of NATO's bombing campaign, Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright were guests of honor. But tensions between Kosovo and Serbia are on the rise again.

A historian explains the risks of increased spending and why the benchmark—2 percent of GDP—is flawed.

While autocrats take advantage of the president's foreign-policy chaos, America's oldest allies are paralyzed by division and dependency.

What’s happening to the GOP’s global affairs brain trust?

He campaigned with a lot of swagger. But his first nine months in office have been defined by indecision, vacillation, and a reluctance to call shots.