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Richard Nathan Haass is an American diplomat. He was president of the Council on Foreign Relations from July 2003 to… more

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Politics Roundup: Maciej Kisilowsk thinks that blaming Russia won’t stop the populist right, Aziz Huq explains how the Supreme Court unleashed Trump’s war on the states, and more

Also with Mariana Mazzucato, Ian Buruma, Antara Haldar, and Shashi Tharoor Also with Mariana Mazzucato, Ian Buruma, Antara Haldar, and Shashi Tharoor

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Special Edition: Two Years After October 7, Progress is Finally at Hand (October 6, 2025)

Welcome to this special edition of Home & Away. It comes two years after the horrific terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023, in which more than 1,200 Israelis and others were brutally murdered and 251 were taken hostage.

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The Enemy From Within (October 1, 2025)

Welcome to Home & Away. It arrives early this week given both the flood of news and the arrival of Yom Kippur. For those of you observing the holiday, I wish you a meaningful but easy fast.

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Par for the Coarse (September 29, 2025)

Welcome to this special edition of Home & Away. The 45th Ryder Cup is now in the history books. For the 11th time in the last 15 competitions, the Europeans lifted the cup.

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Divider-in-Chief (September 26, 2025)

Welcome to Home & Away. There is a lot of news, little of it good. There is the further politicization of the Justice Department and the weaponization of executive authority. I speak of course of the indictments of former FBI director James Comey. And there are new U.S.

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Observer-in-Chief (September 18, 2025)

Welcome to Home & Away. This week’s edition is arriving a day early and a page shorter than usual, as I am about to board a plane for Paris. Also, John Ellis and I just released the third episode of our still new podcast, “Alternate Shots,” and some of what I would have written here I said

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Democracy at Risk (September 12, 2025)

Welcome to Home & Away. This newsletter began with the premise that it was necessary to look at developments both inside and outside the United States to make sense of what is going on in the country and the world. The past week, one that marked the 24

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Post-American World (September 5, 2025)

Welcome to Home & Away. It was a tough week for President Trump, as a good many court decisions (including on tariffs) challenged his expansive use of what he claims to be his presidential powers. That said, it ain’t over till it’s over, and the Supreme Court has yet to weigh in. Speaking of things legal, U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta made a wise

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Fed Up (August 28, 2025)

Welcome to Home & Away. We will keep this relatively brief so as not to get in the way of what little remains of summer and your Labor Day plans.

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A New Podcast (August 22, 2025)

The idea of the podcast is pretty simple. My friend John Ellis and I plan to talk about “three things” that we find interesting, important, or both, with the hope that you will as well. We will aim (along the lines of Home & Away) to have one of the first two things be about matters domestic, the other international. The third item will involve the worl…

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A Piece for Peace? (August 21, 2025)

Welcome to Home & Away. Once again, there is troubling news out of the Middle East, in this case Israeli plans to take control of Gaza City and establish a large new settlement in the heart of the West Bank. I will have much more to say about all this in the coming weeks once things become clearer. Today I will focus on Ukraine, in this case the August …

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Special Edition: From Russia With Love (August 16, 2025)

Welcome to this special edition of Home & Away. What follows are ten takeaways from the Alaska summit between Presidents Trump and Putin.

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Seeing Russia From Alaska (August 14, 2025)

Welcome to Home & Away. At the risk of channeling my inner Garrison Keillor, it has been quite a week, the news equivalent of jamming ten pounds of sugar into a five-pound bag. The Trump administration began implementing a takeover of the police force in Washington, the latest worrying example of a growing federal and military role in public safety. There is a

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Shooting the Messenger (August 7, 2025)

Welcome to Home & Away. We will start with a topic I never imagined writing about, namely, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). As many if not all of you now know, this obscure government agency recently issued a jobs report that made clear the economy is slowing. The report did not speculate why, although many

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