by Eli Lake | Aug 25, 2017 | Opinion
Last month Israel’s prime minister issued a rare dissent from President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. After Secretary of State Rex Tillerson helped broker a test ceasefire in southern Syria, a territory that borders the Jewish state, Benjamin Netanyahu...
by Eli Lake | Jul 20, 2017 | Opinion
Under President Barack Obama this kind of thing was routine. Since the Iran nuclear deal was reached in 2015, every few months the State Department would inform Congress that the Tehran government was in compliance. Then Donald Trump was elected president. He had...
by Eli Lake | Jul 16, 2017 | Opinion
It’s fashionable among President Donald Trump’s defenders to dismiss the reports of his eldest son meeting with a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton as yet another “nothing burger.” You’ve heard the...
by Eli Lake | Jul 11, 2017 | Opinion
Julian Assange has had it with CNN. Since July 4, the founder of WikiLeaks has tweeted 14 times in support of Donald Trump’s latest battle with the media: Gif-Gate. Like many controversies in Washington these days, this one involves a tweet. Last week Trump...
by Eli Lake | Jul 9, 2017 | Opinion
When North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile this week — what its boy tyrant called a “gift to the American bastards” — the response from the Trump administration was fairly conventional. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson...