Christopher Dickey
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How One Early Tweet From Wuhan May Have Doomed the WHO
Bill Gates is right when he says the world needs the organization now more than ever. But its reliance early in the pandemic on China’s information—and lies—is shocking. → Read More
This Is Trump’s Benghazi Moment: ‘It Doesn’t Really Matter’
He railed at Hillary over her “What difference does it make?” snap. But the president’s impatience on Iran and Soleimani led to his own insouciance about some serious matters. → Read More
Nikki Haley Used System for Unclassified Material to Send ‘Confidential’ Information
Newly released emails suggest that in 2017 the then-ambassador lost her password for classified communication and so used a different system. → Read More
Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?
Trump is thinking, and saying, he can make a buck—or anyway his MAGA government can make a buck—by holding on to those fields. → Read More
Trump Turns Baghdadi’s Killing Into a Reality Show
The president knows great television when he sees it, and he was enthusiastic about the images he was watching from the White House situation room Saturday night. → Read More
Trump’s Penchant for Lies Offers a Way Out of War With Iran
The president’s lies got us into this mess that threatens war, global recession—and his re-election. But the use of “deniability” is something he understands very well. → Read More
We’re a Lot Closer to War in the Middle East Than You’ve Been Told
An attack on Saudi oil facilities threatens the global economy and practically dares the U.S. to retaliate. If that weren’t dangerous enough, Trump is president. → Read More
With Trump as a Member, What’s the Point of the G7 Club?
Members of the Group of Seven are supposed to be democracies committed to human rights. Trump and his dictator envy make a mockery of that. → Read More
To Take Down Trump, Take to the Streets
The formula p=mv might just be the E=mc2 of protest. A new study shows it’s not how many turn out for a demonstration that counts, it’s also how often. → Read More
Did Novelist John Steinbeck Spy for the CIA in Paris?
During the same summer that he wrote “The Amiable Fleas,” now published in English for the first time, the American author also appears to have been gathering intel for the Agency. → Read More
The ‘Red Spy Queen’ Who Shocked America—and the Soviets
Elizabeth Bentley died in 1963 a “frumpy New Englander.” But in the 1940s she had managed to manipulate the most feared secret police agency in the world—and intimidate the FBI. → Read More
The Best Instagram Spots in Paris
Paris is a city filled with amazing symmetries and the way things line up can be quite surprising. → Read More
Trump Smirked as He Surrendered Western Values to Putin at the G-20 Summit in Osaka
The president and Vladimir Putin delighted in their shared belief that they have permanently eroded the liberal, democratic consensus. → Read More
Trump's Tough-Guy Image Might Be All the Warmongers Need
Trump hates war, but he loves tough-guy posturing. The latter may give Bolton & Co. all the opening they need to take this further. → Read More
Trump and the Persian Gulf Have a Long, Surprising History
In 1987, Trump attacked Reagan’s deployment in the Gulf to protect “ships we don’t own, carrying oil we don’t need destined for allies who won’t help.” He may still feel that way. → Read More
Trumpists Are Fighting Against Everything the Troops of D-Day Fought For
The president, born the year after the war ended, does not remember and probably does not want to know what brought it on or what it was fought to end. → Read More
U.S.-U.K. Relationship Status: It’s Complicated
As Britain plunges toward Brexit, the belief that Trump will receive it with open arms is really all they have left to cling to. → Read More
Brilliant Codebreakers Exposed Soviet Spies—And Launched the McCarthy Era
Schoolteachers, archeologists, linguists and mathematicians worked on the Venona project breaking unbreakable Soviet code from WWII. They were heroes. But some had deep regrets. → Read More
The Great Russia Witch Hunt (of 1949)
Was a top State Department aide truly a Soviet spy? Or did Richard Nixon and the right find a convenient victim? → Read More
Trump Is a Warmonger Who’s Terrified of War
Donald J. Trump’s weapon of mass destruction is the U.S. dollar, but he’s learning it can’t win the many fights he has picked around the world. → Read More