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Patrick Lawrence is Salon’s foreign affairs columnist. A longtime correspondent abroad, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune and The New Yorker, he is an essayist, critic, editor and contributing writer at The Nation. His most recent book is “Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century”. Follow him on Twitter. Support him at Patreon.com. His web site is patricklawrence.us.

North and South Korean athletes waving a unification flag during the opening ceremony of the 4th East Asian Games (AP/Ng Han Guan)

A critical moment in Korea: Will the U.S. give peace a chance?

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American global “leadership”: Under Trump, now less than ever

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North Korean Troops (Getty/Kim Won-Jin)

New hope on the Korean peninsula, believe it or not

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A man runs in front of a barricade burned by Maidan self-defence activists as they clash with residents of Kiev on August 9, 2014. (Getty/Sergei Supinsky)

Seeing the unseen in Ukraine: Why is America sending arms?

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(AP/Seth Wenig)

Trump and Haley’s “America First”: Same old policy, made worse

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Benjamin Netanyahu; Mahmoud Abbas; Vladimir Putin (AP/Salon)

Trump’s Jerusalem fumble: If the U.S. is out as a Mideast broker, who’s in?

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Jared Kushner; Benjamin Netanyahu; Michael Flynn (AP/Getty/Shutterstock/Salon)

Trump and Jerusalem: Will his “hard power” realism backfire bigly?

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Kim Jong-Un (Getty/STR)

Now we face a nuclear North Korea: That might not be the worst thing

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Bashar Assad and Vladimir Putin (AP/Mikhail Klimentyev)

American policy totally failed in Syria — let’s be thankful

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Donald Trump drinks during a special gala celebration dinner for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. (Getty/Athit Perawongmetha)

Trump’s foreign policy is confused — but it isn’t really Trump’s

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Rohingya refugees at border. (Getty/Dominique Faget)

Tragedy of the Rohingya: The Burmese crisis and the nation-state

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Demonstrators shout as thousands protest the Catalan government's push for secession from the rest of Spain (AP/Emilio Morenatti)

The Catalan crisis: Is the contemporary nation-state in jeopardy?

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Dumb and dumber: Trump’s foreign policy repeats decades of American mistakes

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"The Vietnam War" (PBS)

Making history safe again: What Ken Burns gets wrong about Vietnam

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John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov hold a press conference following their meeting in Geneva, Sept. 9, 2016. (AP/Kevin Lamarque)

John Kerry’s last hurrah: With the Syrian cease-fire, the secretary of state takes a parting swipe at Russophobia

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War in the media age: Hysteria over Trump’s supposed Russian ties made headlines, but the “story” is remarkably flimsy

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Donald Trump (Reuters/Eric Thayer)

About those “experts”: Take a close look at the foreign policy insiders denouncing Trump

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John Allen; Hillary Clinton (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/AP/Paul Sancya)

Clinton, Gen. Allen and alarmist declarations: The media must call out leaders for their dangerous fictions

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Hillary Clinton; Vladimir Putin (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

Shades of the Cold War: How the DNC fabricated a Russian hacker conspiracy to deflect blame for its email scandal

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech to his supporters in Istanbul, Turkey, July 16, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer - RTSIBDO (Reuters/Murad Sezer)

Corporate media’s Turkey spin: “Attempted coup” bears the marks of an authoritarian power grab orchestrated by Erdoğan

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Barack Obama; Vladimir Putin (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Michael Klimentyev)

The West escalates with Russia: Make no mistake, a second Cold War is now official NATO policy

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(Reuters/Jim Young/Salon)

The two Obamas: An assessment of our capable, but captive president

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(Reuters/Dylan Martinez)

Don’t blame Brits for the Brexit: The EU strayed from its roots in post-war unity to become a neoliberal technocracy

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Barack Obama (Reuters/Yuri Gripas)

The Syria dilemma: Dissecting the leaked diplomats memo calling for Obama to get tougher on Assad

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