Daniel DePetris

Can Biden bring relations with Russia back from the brink?

21 April 2021 4:00 pm

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov delivered a depressing assessment on the state of U.S.-Russia relations earlier this month. While holding…

Biden's backhanded bid to kill Nord Stream 2

9 April 2021 6:00 pm

Washington, D.C. is universally known as a town divided, a place where compromise and dialogue are often sacrificed at the…

America's Russian sanctions are futile

3 March 2021 6:06 pm

During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised to approach Russia and its irascible President Vladimir Putin with a new…

What the Khashoggi murder report means for US-Saudi relations

27 February 2021 6:36 am

Today, after pressure from senior US lawmakers and staring at an impending statutory deadline, the Biden administration authorised the release…

Good luck to Joe Biden. He'll need it

21 January 2021 5:49 am

It’s official: the inauguration is over, the speeches have been given, and political power in the United States has been…

The pro-Trump mob are trashing the Republic

7 January 2021 9:04 am

Watching television news, captivated by the images of pro-Trump rioters, looters, and frankly losers storm the Capitol building in service…

Donald Trump is now the Republican party's kingmaker

23 November 2020 7:23 pm

As Donald Trump continues to insist that he actually won the 2020 presidential election, speculation has grown about how the…

Make America Great Again Again: Prepare for Trump 2024

11 November 2020 6:00 pm

Imagine Donald Trump acknowledging that he lost the election and placing a formal concession call to Joe Biden. Now imagine…

Joe Biden should prepare for gridlock

6 November 2020 7:01 pm

The Democratic Party was anticipating a blue wave this fall, a victory of such magnitude that Republicans would be spending…

America gets the divided election result it deserves

4 November 2020 6:00 pm

The 2020 U.S. presidential race was an ugly, ferocious dogfight. So it only makes sense for the contest to end…

Lame-duck Trump has plenty of time to cause trouble

4 November 2020 2:55 am

Making political predictions can be about as foolhardy as walking into a Las Vegas casino and predicting success at the…

Obama's bid to make Trump a one-term president

28 October 2020 7:33 pm

With less than a week to go before Americans cast their ballots at polling places across the country, Donald Trump…

Joe Biden's one job in the presidential debate

23 October 2020 4:45 pm

Former Vice President Joe Biden had one job in tonight’s final presidential debate: tread water. Don’t get rattled. If President…

Even Trump’s friends are turning against him

19 October 2020 3:46 am

If there is one word that best describes Senate Republicans in the age of Donald Trump, it’s “docile.” With the…

Trump won’t admit it, but he’s in trouble

16 October 2020 5:09 pm

President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden were supposed to debate in front of the American public last…

Donald Trump is running out of time

14 October 2020 11:29 pm

Donald Trump was bewildered, frustrated, and downright exasperated. Addressing a crowd of red-hatted, hard-core MAGA supporters last night in Johnstown,…

What was missing from the vice presidential debate

8 October 2020 5:41 pm

Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris is a former prosecutor. Vice President Mike Pence is a career politician. The debate between…

The US election is Joe Biden’s to lose

7 October 2020 5:00 pm

Donald Trump is back at the White House after a scary three-day stay at the Walter Reed medical complex. For…

Biden can smell victory in his battle against Trump

5 October 2020 3:45 am

‘How is the president feeling?’ shouldn’t be a difficult question to answer. And yet over the last 24 hours, nobody…

Covid-19 is Trump's hardest fight yet

3 October 2020 4:47 pm

Donald Trump has confronted a long list of adversaries and weathered an even longer list of scandals in his nearly…

Trump's debate clash with Biden was a national embarrassment

30 September 2020 2:49 pm

Last night’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden started amicably enough. Both men strolled on stage, Trump wearing…

Trump's tax leak won't turn the election

29 September 2020 2:18 am

Donald Trump has a lot to worry about these days. The man who is deathly afraid of being ‘a loser’…

Has the EU finally found its spine when it comes to China?

30 July 2020 2:51 am

There is no point putting lipstick on a pig: the relationship between the United States and China, two powers holding…

Trump’s suburban nightmare

27 July 2020 6:55 pm

Public opinion polls haven’t been particularly positive for President Trump or his Republican allies on Capitol Hill. This past weekend…

Is Trump toning himself down for re-election?

23 July 2020 8:03 pm

The last time a U.S. President lost re-election, the year was 1992 and the victim was George H.W. Bush. President…