North Korea Is the Most Predictable Regime on Earth. The Real Threat Is the Erratic U.S. Government.
North Korea has acted pretty much the same way for half a century. Donald Trump’s volatile rhetoric is new and destabilizing.
Peter Maass
Peter Maass is a senior editor who has written about war, media, and national security for New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, and the Washington Post. He reported on both civilians and combatants during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the author of "Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War," an award-winning memoir about the conflict in Bosnia, and he wrote "Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil." He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012. He has taught writing at Princeton and Columbia universities, and had fellowships at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard and the American Academy in Berlin. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, he lives in New York City.
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How Donald Trump Could Destroy the Global Fight Against Kleptocracy
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For Donald Trump, a Terror Attack Will Be an Opportunity Not a Curse
Civil rights advocates are preparing for the White House to launch a new assault on Muslims and immigrants in the wake of a domestic terrorism attack.
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Michael Anton was hired onto the National Security Council after writing a series of essays that were criticized for prejudice and were connected to a Nazi-era philosopher, Carl Schmitt.
What Slobodan Milosevic Taught Me About Donald Trump
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