News: Walter Russell

While examining President Obama's split personality in Foreign Policy magazine, Walter Russell Mead falls back on a familiar presidential comparison: Jimmy Carter; he worries that Obama's impulse to be a cold-blooded realist as well as a bleeding-heart idealist could, in the worst scenario, turn him into a new Jimmy Carter

In last month's issue of Foreign Policy magazine, leading analyst and Iraq War supporter Walter Russell Mead opined that President Obama's foreign policy agenda was turning into a duplicate of Jimmy Carter's.

The Washington Post this morning has a strong story on the collapse of the movement to stop climate change through a binding treaty negotiated under UN

Over on his blog at Foreign Policy, the always interesting and engaging political scientist Daniel Drezner raises some important questions about science and politics.

There is a good deal of bureaucratic inertia still in play here, in other words. Halting the global warming juggernaut, much less trying to throw it into reverse gear, will take an awful lot of work. Global warming is far from dead, but the fact that someone like Walter Russell Mead recognizes that its vital signs are dropping is good news indeed.

Over the past few weeks, Walter Russell Mead offered readers of his blog at The American Interest a series of fascinating posts outlining the global trends that are likely to dominate the new decade. At the outset of the series, Mead predicted a "wild decade ahead," arguing that the ever accelerating pace of change would pose enormous challenges.

As President Obama basks in the glow of his Nobel Peace Prize, many of the usual suspects are complaining that he hasn't done enough to earn it. How much has

With the Palestinian leadership threatening to walk, Walter Russell Mead breaks down the president mistakes and how we can get the peace process going again.

Ivanka Trump and New York Observer publisher Jared Kushner wed in a private Jewish ceremony over the weekend attended by 500 friends and family. Celebrity guests included Natalie Portman, former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Russell Crowe, Barbara Walters and Regis Philbin.

An audio version, in 10 parts, of Glenn Clark’s world-famous biography of Walter Russell, The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe who was known in his own time as the modern Leonardo da Vinci, the most versatile man in America, and the man who tapped the secrets of the universe, we meet the man, the artist and the man of action.