Patrick L. Smith

Patrick Smith is Salon’s foreign affairs columnist. A longtime correspondent abroad, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune and The New Yorker, he is also an essayist, critic and editor. His most recent books are “Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century” (Yale, 2013) and Somebody Else’s Century: East and West in a Post-Western World (Pantheon, 2010). Follow him @thefloutist. His web site is patricklawrence.us.

John Kerry, Sergey Lavrov

Our Syria policy is still a mess: These are the dots the media refuses to connect Patrick L. Smith

Hillary Clinton

We can't have more of the same: The very real dangers of Hillary Clinton's foreign policy Patrick L. Smith

Ashton Carter

The Defense Department is ruining America: Big budgets, militarization and the real story behind our Asia pivot Patrick L. Smith

Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, David Petraeus

"This will stop only when the American people get fed up": American exceptionalism, the New York Times, and our foreign policy after Barack Obama Patrick L. Smith

Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld

"The scope of our failure": The real story of our decades-long foreign policy disaster that set the Middle East on fire Patrick L. Smith

Ben Rhodes

Did the New York Times just accidentally tell the truth about the Obama administration? Patrick L. Smith

Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump

We can't vote for either one: On world stage, Clinton and Trump present different, but serious, dangers Patrick L. Smith

Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders

We are all just this screwed: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and our muddled, perverted democracy Patrick L. Smith

Donald Trump

Trump opposed Iraq. Hillary voted for war: Let's take his foreign policy vision seriously Patrick L. Smith

Hillary Clinton

She'll make Iran, Syria worse: What the media won't tell you about our foreign policy -- and how hawkish Hillary will pour the kerosene Patrick L. Smith

Donald Trump

What Donald Trump doesn't know might save us: He's unschooled, but at least he's no American exceptionalist or neo-con ideologue Patrick L. Smith

Brussels Attacks

We brought this on ourselves, and we are the terrorists, too Patrick L. Smith

Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton

It is urgent that she's stopped: Hillary Clinton's nightmare neoliberalism and American exceptionalism makes the world a dangerous place Patrick L. Smith

Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush

As reckless as George W. Bush: Hillary Clinton helped create disorder in Iraq, Libya, Syria -- and, scarier, doesn't seem to understand how Patrick L. Smith

John Kerry, Hillary Clinton

The real story about Syria and Libya: Behind a new agreement with Moscow, and the insidious way the New York Times protects Hillary Patrick L. Smith

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