Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune, is a columnist, essayist, author, and lecturer. His most recent book is Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century (Yale). Follow him @thefloutist. His website is www.patricklawrence.us. Support his work via www.patreon.com/thefloutist.
LópezObrador的200亿美元发展计划使华盛顿有机会帮助纠正它对危地马拉，洪都拉斯和萨尔瓦多人民生活条件造成的历史性损害。
With President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatening to shut down the government if he doesn’t get his wall, it’s good that someone in a position of authority actually has a workable solution to the migrant crisis festering on the Mexican border with the U.S. The day after Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office as Mexico’s president on Dec. 1,
美国将采取新的伊朗制裁措施来惩罚那些与德黑兰交易的人。但是，在二战后的可能转折点上，美国可能会对其进行斗争。
The next step in the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran comes this Sunday, Nov. 4, when the most severe sanctions will be imposed on the Islamic Republic. Crucially, they apply not only to Iran but to anyone who continues to do business with it. It’s not yet clear how disruptive this move will be. While the U.S.
在叙利亚，乌克兰，也门和其他地方都有战场，但鉴于企业媒体的状况，现在正在进行的最重要的战斗也许是为了我们的思想。
After reading The New York Times piece “The Plot to Subvert an Election” I put the paper down with a single question. Why, after two years of allegations, indictments, and claims to proof of this, that, and the other did the newspaper of record—well, once the newspaper of record—see any need to publish such a piece? My answer is simple: The
痛苦的现实是，美国的外交政策除了阻止其他国家的主动行动之外没有明确的目标，因为它们阻碍了美国全球利益的进一步扩张。
The Trump administration has brought U.S. foreign policy to the brink of crisis if it has not already tipped into one. There is little room to argue otherwise. In Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, and in Washington’s ever-fraught relations with Russia, U.S. strategy, as reviewed in my previous column, amounts to little more than spoiling the
