Patrick L. Smith (page 2)

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.

Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama

This is how we spooked Putin: What the New York Times won't tell you about the American adventure in Ukraine Patrick L. Smith

Colin Powell, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney

This is how the CIA botched Iraq post-9/11: Bob Gates, careerist sycophancy, and the real history of the Deep State Patrick L. Smith

Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, Bashar al-Assad, John Kerry

"Intelligent people know that the empire is on the downhill": A veteran CIA agent spills the goods on the Deep State and our foreign policy nightmares Patrick L. Smith

"Cruel bastards hang together: All you need to know": The world according to the New York Times Patrick L. Smith

David Brooks, Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders and David Brooks, both wrong: This year of Fox News and Donald Trump-fueled rage can't be fixed by any candidate Patrick L. Smith

George W. Bush, Barack Obama

He's made the Middle East worse: Let's be honest, Obama bears as much responsibility for this mess as predecessors who shaped them Patrick L. Smith

From bad to worse to delusional: The real story about Syria that the New York Times won't tell you Patrick L. Smith

Our glorious Thanksgiving unraveling: Race, protest, patriotism -- and the forming, finally, of a true American spirit Patrick L. Smith

Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump

Putin has bested them all: How has the Russian leader gotten the better of Clinton, Bush and Obama? Patrick L. Smith

Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin

They still want a new Cold War: What the New York Times won't tell you about Syria, Putin and the new battle against ISIS Patrick L. Smith

Paul Krugman, Noam Chomsky

It's Paul Krugman vs. Noam Chomsky: This is the history we need to understand Paris, ISIS Patrick L. Smith

France Paris Attacks New York

We brought this on ourselves: After Paris, it is time to square our "values" with our history Patrick L. Smith

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders is a cruise-missile progressive: False hope, foreign policy and the stubborn endurance of American exceptionalism Patrick L. Smith

Vladimir Putin, Bashar Assad

Judy Miller's ghost lingers: Putin, Syria and how the New York Times cheers on a new Cold War Patrick L. Smith

Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, William Kristol, John McCain

"Does anyone have a plan?" Here's how we fix decades of overseas neo-conservative adventurism Patrick L. Smith

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