Patrick L. Smith

Patrick Smith is Salon’s foreign affairs columnist. A longtime correspondent abroad, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune and The New Yorker, he is also an essayist, critic and editor. His most recent books are “Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century” (Yale, 2013) and Somebody Else’s Century: East and West in a Post-Western World (Pantheon, 2010). Follow him @thefloutist. His web site is patricklawrence.us.


John Kerry, Sergey Lavrov
Hillary Clinton
Ashton Carter
Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, David Petraeus
Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld
Ben Rhodes
Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders
Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump
Brussels Attacks
Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush
John Kerry, Hillary Clinton