Walter Russell Mead

Walter Russell Mead discusses the Ukraine aid package, banning TikTok, Lina Khan’s Federal Trade Commission overreach, and the pro-Hamas protests sweeping America’s college campuses on What Really Matters.

He is caught between the national interest and the demands of his political base.

Caption Pro-Palestine activists confront police during demonstrations at the City College Of New York on April 30, 2024, in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

In the Indo-Pacific, doubts emerge that the U.S. can manage simultaneous crises. World leaders know that what happens in the Middle East doesn't stay there.

Moscow makes money and evades sanctions in a continent the US disdains. Amid world-shaking crises in the Middle East, Europe and the Indo-Pacific, the news from Niger might seem unimportant.

In an increasingly alarming world, the West can’t afford to rest for much longer.

Britain must learn how to stay relevant in the post-imperial, post-Atlantic world.

Both sides are using revolutionary means to wage battles on land and in the air. Kharkiv, Ukraine

Washington assumes erroneously that China, Russia and Iran want ‘stability.' Rome Giorgia Meloni was the winner of last week's Group of Seven meeting.

Seeing foreign policy as a crucial Biden weakness, Trump hammers away.