Thomas Wright

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds talks with U.S. President Joe Biden via a video link in Sochi, Russia December 7, 2021. Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Pool via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Putin is taking a huge gamble

Friday, December 10, 2021

A British Airways captain walks through the International arrivals area of Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow Airport, Britain, August 2, 2021. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

The international travel restrictions make little sense

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

File photo dated February 14, 2012 of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping hold an expanded bilateral meeting in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC, USA. China will pay a price for its human rights abuses, U.S. President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday, responding to queries at a televised event on the Asian nations handling of Muslim minorities in its far western region of Xinjiang. Chinese President Xi Jinping has drawn global criticism for holding the minority Uighurs in internment camps and other human rights abuses. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

Joe Biden worries that China might win

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at Fayetteville Regional Airport in Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S., November 2, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

The story of our mad king will live on well past the election

Sunday, November 1, 2020

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany February 16, 2019. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert - RC1AAE535B90

The moment the trans-Atlantic charade ended

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Steet in London, Britain, December 17, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville - RC19399CB420

Theresa May’s job just got harder

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump walks past Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Rwandan President and African Union chairperson Paul Kagame, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Brazil's President Michel Temer as he arrives for a family photo during the G20 leaders summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina November 30, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC171E986680

The free-world strategy progressives need

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House after the president accepted Haley's resignation in Washington, U.S., October 9, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1B33F34810

Hang on and hope: What to expect from Trump’s foreign policy now that Nikki Haley is departing

October 14, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 25, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria - RC1C6B2D13E0

Trump’s mystifying victory lap at the UN

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Leaders pose during the family photo session at the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam November 11, 2017. (Front L-R) China's President Xi Jinping, Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang, Indonesia's President Joko Widodo, (back L-R) Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump. REUTERS/Jorge Silva - RC1A932315F0

The return to great-power rivalry was inevitable

Wednesday, September 12, 2018