The story behind Heather's Expos hat ... Trump's failed, reality TV–esque, fatal car crash reconciliation ... Will impeachment cause US foreign policy to improve? ... Is the era of grand strategy over? ... Why a US–EU entente is coming post-Trump ... Dan: Climate change can't be ignored in foreign policy any more ...

Who tried to kill Big Papi? ... Who attacked oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman? ... Is Shinzo Abe Trump's friend or supplicant? ... Gauging the odds of war with Iran ... Heather: Trump's actions mean the US can never rejoin the nuclear deal ... The ever-growing costs of maintaining American hegemony ... Trump as God's gift to neoliberalism ... Dan has some kind words for Elizabeth Warren ...

Secretary Mattis's extraordinary resignation letter ... Why did Trump decide to withdraw from Syria now? ... Secretary of Defense David Petraeus? ... Other foreign policy news you may have missed this week ... Heather: You don't change Trump, Trump changes you ... Laughing and crying at the year in foreign policy ...

Why the fight over security clearances matters ... Are the norms that Trump broke permanently broken? ... Dan: Trump's trade wars have created more free trade supporters ... Why NAFTA isn't getting renegotiated any time soon ... Would a Dem Congress be able to change Trump's trade policy? ... Will the liberal international order survive Trump? ...

Gary Cohn, we hardly knew ye ... The incoherence of Trump's trade policy ... Why the current debate about trade is out of date ... Will Mike Pompeo be better than Rex Tillerson? ... Assessing James Mattis's tenure ... Heather makes the case against the CIA's Gina Haskell ... Dan is genuinely worried about John Bolton in the White House ...

Trump's first year in foreign policy ... The international community of s******es ... The logical contradiction at the heart of Trump's foreign policy ... Dan: Trump disdains the liberal international order but offers no alternative ... The challenge for internationalists ... The "constant crap" theory ...

Heather’s statement on the #metoo hashtag and sexual assault awareness ... What “America first” means to the rest of the world ... Is the liberal international order in danger? Heather says yes ... Dan’s book Avoiding Trivia makes a surprise appearance ... Heather: Social media matters, but information warfare is nothing new ...

The end of the “axis of adults” ... Heather: Trump needs Deterrence Theory 101 ... How much should we fear North Korea? ... Which Trump adviser will be the next to go? ... The disconnect between Trump and the Pentagon ... The case for negotiating with North Korea ...

What Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Accord says about executive power ... Comparing Trump and Bush: why messaging matters ... Dan on Trump's diplomacy: more predictable, less credible ... Will Trump's grandstanding on NATO bring results? ... Has Trump deterred nationalist populism in Europe? ... Global governance in the age of populism ...

The end of Turkish democracy? ... The foreign policy “axis of adults” ... Nikki Haley, rising star ... Why the MOAB and the Syria strikes won’t scare Kim Jong-Un ... Will Trump negotiate with North Korea? ...

Why has Trump left so many jobs unfilled? ... And does it matter? ... The options for dealing with North Korea (spoiler: They’re all bad) ... Trump’s confusing approach to China ... Why Trump hates multilateral trade agreements ... Dan’s pick for most embarrassing Trump administration moment of the week ...

The boring first week of Trump’s presidency ... What does the State Department exodus mean? ... A return to black sites and torture? ... Why the immigration executive orders will undermine national security ... The yuge myth about the international order ... Why the $@&%?! would Trump want to lift sanctions on Russia? ...

What Heather and Dan got wrong about the election ... Will Trump’s national security team face a recruitment problem? ... Will Trump’s cabinet be plagued by infighting? ... Dan: Fiscal hawks could lose bigly ... How will The Hill respond to Trump? ... The ethics of serving in a Trump administration ...

Trump's pivot on immigration ... Will Trumpism survive Trump? ... The hard limits of Trump's campaign strategy ... Are we living during a realist Renaissance? ... The legacy of Kissinger, the realist bogeyman ... Election developments to watch for after Labor Day ...

Why we don't see many Dwight D. Eisenhowers ... Dan on an unlikely General Flynn VP pick ... Why military life doesn't prepare you for politics ... Does America want a savior? ... Hillary's potential VP pick, Admiral Stavridis (a.k.a. Dan's boss!) ... Will national security Never Trumpers change their tune? ...

The GOP foreign policy divide over Trump ... Trump's contradictory foreign policy platform ... Has 2016 paved the way for anti-establishment candidates? ... The controversial profile of Ben Rhodes in NYT Mag... ... ...and its questionable portrayal of the Iran deal ... Is parenting overrated? ...

Heather and Dan seize the narrative on Russian forces in Syria ... Obama's disdain for the DC foreign policy establishment ... Obama’s disdain for the Arab Middle East ... Neither party is telling an up-to-date story on trade ... The case for the establishment candidates: We think we know what they’ll do ... No, really—who would be on Trump’s foreign policy team? ...

The mindset of the outsider candidate ... Hashing out Bernie Sanders's silence on foreign policy ... Dan to Heather: Would you advise Donald Trump? ... Does Davos matter? ... The potential farce of Syrian peace talks ... Parenting in the 21st century ...

Heather: The Trump effect is real ... Where will the energy unleashed by Trump go? ... Has Trump hurt America internationally? ... Dan: Trump and Clinton sound alike on online radicalization ... The online privacy paradox ... 2015 mostly stunk, but there are signs of hope for 2016! ...

Foreign policy's diversity problem ... Do GOP voters like Rand Paul's non-interventionism? ... The Republican base's trust issues ... American-style polarization goes global ... Why the United Kingdom probably won't leave the EU ... RIP BRICs? ...

TPP illustrates America's paradoxical China policy ... Clinton and the glorious history of flip-flopping on trade ... An intriguing Biden 2016 theory ... Can Putin save Assad? ... Could Syria ignite a wider regional war? ... What unites Russia and the House Freedom Caucus ...

Deep thoughts on Scott Walker's Canadian border wall ... Dan: Walker's foreign policy speech was "really bad" ... Critiquing the GOP contenders' rhetoric on China ... Would sanctioning China over hacking be effective? ... Why the campaign against the Iran deal failed ... Red-state Dems, American Jews, and Netanyahu ...

The hidden message of Obama's Africa trip ... Anti–Iran deal rhetoric goes nuclear ... Can AIPAC sink the nuclear deal? ... Heather: Israel is hurting its own long-term goals ... Causes and consequences of Chinese stock market craziness ... Lessons from the failures of humanitarian intervention ...

It's a miracle! Trade promotion authority is revived ... Dan: Obama has made a strategic, not economic, argument ... Heather critiques the trade deal from the left ... The big mistake we made about China in the '90s ... Former Israeli ambassador goes on anti-Obama press tour ... How the Obama/Netanyahu schism will affect 2016 ...