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President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington November 10, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Obama Should Thank Trump for Putting Iran on Notice

by Eli Lake | Feb 19, 2017 | Opinion

Don’t say Donald Trump never did anything for Barack Obama. On Wednesday, National Security Adviser Michael Flynn put Iran “on notice” for its ballistic missile test and its arming, training and equipping of Houthi rebels in Yemen. The early reaction...

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MOVING SLOWLY. IT’S A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP, AFTER ALL.
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Trump Avoids Making a Trade Promise He Can’t Keep

by Eli Lake | Jan 29, 2017 | Opinion

Donald Trump’s first week as president has been a bad one for free trade. He suggested a new 20 percent tariff for imports from Mexico. He formally withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and said he would start renegotiating the North American...

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Julian Assange makes a speech from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy, in central London, Britain Feb. 5, 2016. Peter Nicholls/Reuters

The Unraveling of Julian Assange

by Eli Lake | Jan 8, 2017 | Opinion

You almost have to feel sorry for Julian Assange. Shut in at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London without access to sunlight, the founder of WikiLeaks is reduced to self-parody these days. Here is a man dedicated to radical transparency, yet he refuses to go to Sweden...

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Edward Snowden speaks via video link during a conference at University of Buenos Aires Law School, Argentina, November 14, 2016. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci

Was Edward Snowden a Spy?

by Eli Lake | Dec 26, 2016 | Opinion

Ever since the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong and handed hard drives filled with highly classified documents to the journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, there has been rampant speculation over whether he was...

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U.S. President elect Donald Trump speaks at election night rally in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 9, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar

The ‘Trump Effect’: Allies and Adversaries Adapt to Uncertainty

by Eli Lake | Nov 28, 2016 | Opinion

During the presidential campaign, many foreign ambassadors quietly warned that a Donald Trump presidency would be a disaster. It’s easy to see why. As Robert Kagan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Clinton supporter, put it in a column over the...