Vivian Salama
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- Sep 16, 2026
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Cuba’s Old Economic Model Is ‘Exhausted’ (opens the original)
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Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. In September 2010, an ailing Fidel Castro made a striking admission. The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg had asked him whether the Cuban model was still worth exporting. “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore,” Castro bluntly told him. Sixteen years later, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, one of Cuba’s top diplomats, offered me a similar assessment of the state of the revolution, nearly seven decades on. In an interview in Washington, D.
The Latest Empty Threat Against Iran (opens the original)
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No sooner had Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the latest tool for achieving what he said would be the “economic asphyxiation” of Iran than he revealed the reason he was reluctant to use it. Secondary sanctions—penalties on countries, individuals, or entities that do business with Iran—are ready to go, Bessent announced to reporters in the Treasury’s ornate Cash Room yesterday. But he went out of his way not to name the chief offenders that help Tehran: China and Russia. So, Bessent wa
From ‘Indispensable’ Ally to Target of Annihilation (opens the original)
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When the United States was looking for a way to talk to Iran about a nuclear deal more than a decade ago, it turned to Oman, asking the country to do something it had quietly done for years: make an impossible conversation possible. Because Washington and Tehran had no diplomatic relations, the U.S. felt that the most promising back channel to get a conversation started led through Muscat. Iran was skeptical but willing to sit down with U.S. officials, provided there was some very particular dip
The Danger of Trump’s Anti-Communist Rhetoric (opens the original)
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Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. Karl Marx wrote that political actors often borrow the language and symbols of earlier struggles to wage their own battles. So perhaps he would have been unsurprised to hear the Trump administration resurrect the political rhetoric of the Cold War fight against Marxism. President Trump, at Wheeler High School in the Atlanta suburbs earlier this summer, mentioned communism or communist 15 times, starting less than a minute into his hour-plu
The Art of the Giveaway (opens the original)
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Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. What kind of negotiator gives the other side everything that it wants with the hope of eventually getting something in return? It’s a question that even some of President Trump’s own allies are asking after his administration signed a landmark deal to develop a civilian nuclear program in Saudi Arabia using American technology. The deal’s opponents, in the United States and Israel, worry that the n
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