James Traub

James Traub is a columnist at Foreign Policy, nonresident fellow at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, and author of the book What Was Liberalism? The Past, Present and Promise of A Noble Idea.

Articles by James Traub

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The Hillary Paradox

Argument

June 13, 2014, 9:29 PM

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Broken Windows and Beating Back al Qaeda

COLUMN

June 6, 2014, 10:06 PM

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Obama’s Light Touch and a Heavy Hand

Argument

May 30, 2014, 7:01 PM

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Faster, Stronger, Worse

Argument

May 23, 2014, 6:10 PM

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Downbeat in Doha

COLUMN

May 16, 2014, 4:50 PM

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A Birth Defect in the Heart of Africa

COLUMN

May 9, 2014, 10:04 PM

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A President Lying to the American People, and to Himself

COLUMN

May 2, 2014, 7:07 PM

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The Rise of India’s Common Man

Argument

April 28, 2014, 11:56 PM

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‘We Need a Dictator With a Gun and a Hoover’

COLUMN

April 18, 2014, 9:56 PM

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Watching Modi, the Maestro, at Work

Argument

April 16, 2014, 4:48 PM

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If We Can Let Syria Burn, Have We Learned Anything at All from Rwanda?

COLUMN

April 4, 2014, 6:27 PM

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The Enemy We’ve Been Waiting For

COLUMN

March 27, 2014, 11:28 PM

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Burning Bridges and the Smell of Fresh Blood

COLUMN

March 21, 2014, 6:17 PM

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Spiteful Faces and Suicidal Tendencies

COLUMN

March 14, 2014, 11:46 PM

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Obama’s Not Carter — He’s Eisenhower

COLUMN

March 7, 2014, 6:11 PM

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