Jonathan Marshall, a first-rate foreign-policy reporter and analyst, exposes the hypocrisy of American concern over alleged Russian manipulation of U.S. democracy in “Who’s the Real Manipulator of Elections?” This is must-reading for those who want to understand this issue, which is fueling Russophobia, a new McCarthyism, and a revived Cold War. The bottom line is that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Reading a Rising China Through the Wrong Ancient Script
Few ideas have shaped the way Washington talks about Beijing more than the Thucydides Trap. The Harvard political scientist Graham Allison built the phrase on a single line from the ancient historian Thucydides, who wrote that "it was the rise of Athens and the fear...
