Patrick L. Smith (page 2)

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.

Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama
This is how we spooked Putin: What the New York Times won't tell you about the American adventure in Ukraine Patrick L. Smith
Colin Powell, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney
This is how the CIA botched Iraq post-9/11: Bob Gates, careerist sycophancy, and the real history of the Deep State Patrick L. Smith
Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, Bashar al-Assad, John Kerry
"Intelligent people know that the empire is on the downhill": A veteran CIA agent spills the goods on the Deep State and our foreign policy nightmares Patrick L. Smith
"Cruel bastards hang together: All you need to know": The world according to the New York Times Patrick L. Smith
David Brooks, Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders and David Brooks, both wrong: This year of Fox News and Donald Trump-fueled rage can't be fixed by any candidate Patrick L. Smith
George W. Bush, Barack Obama
He's made the Middle East worse: Let's be honest, Obama bears as much responsibility for this mess as predecessors who shaped them Patrick L. Smith
From bad to worse to delusional: The real story about Syria that the New York Times won't tell you Patrick L. Smith
Our glorious Thanksgiving unraveling: Race, protest, patriotism -- and the forming, finally, of a true American spirit Patrick L. Smith
Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump
Putin has bested them all: How has the Russian leader gotten the better of Clinton, Bush and Obama? Patrick L. Smith
Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin
They still want a new Cold War: What the New York Times won't tell you about Syria, Putin and the new battle against ISIS Patrick L. Smith
Paul Krugman, Noam Chomsky
It's Paul Krugman vs. Noam Chomsky: This is the history we need to understand Paris, ISIS Patrick L. Smith
France Paris Attacks New York
We brought this on ourselves: After Paris, it is time to square our "values" with our history Patrick L. Smith
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders is a cruise-missile progressive: False hope, foreign policy and the stubborn endurance of American exceptionalism Patrick L. Smith
Vladimir Putin, Bashar Assad
Judy Miller's ghost lingers: Putin, Syria and how the New York Times cheers on a new Cold War Patrick L. Smith
Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, William Kristol, John McCain
"Does anyone have a plan?" Here's how we fix decades of overseas neo-conservative adventurism Patrick L. Smith