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An attempt to minimise the 50th birthday get thwarted by the many exclamation points declaring a new chapter in life

His legacy will go down as one of the most ineffective secretaries of state in modern US history

Being the first US secretary of state without any government or military experience, he should shut up until he demonstrates that he knows what he’s talking about

Negative economic circumstances could trigger a voter shift towards more authoritarian attitudes, which in turn leads to heightened cultural anxiety

Credible commitment is far more important in international negotiations than the ability to engage in truthful hyperbole

The more you have to adapt to negative shocks, the better you get at coping

The president’s acknowledgement of the US as a flawed nation is at the root of conservative criticism, but an awful lot of countries have looked to the US during the Obama era

The first rule of punditry is to find something interesting to say. But we’re at the point when that’s impossible when writing about him

The problem is that crafting international agreements is hard work on a good day

European governments are far more dependent on Russian energy than Iran’s energy

Here is someone who clearly worked much harder than her husband in law school

It would seem that the administration is still very busy exhausting all its alternatives