Robert Silverman on President Trump’s Postwar Gaza Remarks

President Donald Trump’s visit to Sharm el-Sheikh demonstrated the joint convening power of the US and Egypt, gathering at short notice the leaders of Europe and the Middle East to support the Trump Peace Plan. Having helped broker the ceasefire, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi now faces the far harder challenge of shaping what comes next. […]

There are moments in history when quiet determination achieves more than thunderous rhetoric. Jared Kushner belongs to that rare category of individuals whose influence stems not from spectacle, but from substance, not from noise, but from an unyielding calm that conceals immense strategic power. Kushner’s ambition is of a particular kind—disciplined, understated, and oriented toward […]

LBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Failby Peter L.W. Osnos, Rivertowns Books, 2024 McNamara at War: A New Historyby Philip Taubman and William Taubman, W.W. Norton & Company, 2025 Fifty years after it ended, the American war in Vietnam remains controversial. That is because it turned out very differently than had been anticipated […]