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  • Dec 1, 2023 | foreignaffairs.com | Timothy Naftali |Joshua Kurlantzick |Michelle G. Kurilla |Richard N. Haass

    After more than six decades on the world’s stage, during which he both brilliantly persuaded and deceived the powerful and created state-to-state relationships that survive him, Henry Kissinger now belongs to the history he helped make. The only American official ever to have held all of the levers of foreign-policy making—for two years he served simultaneously as national security adviser and secretary of state—he has no peers in the history of U.S. foreign relations in the superpower era.

  • Nov 17, 2023 | wsj.com | Timothy Naftali

    The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, remains America’s ur-conspiracy—a source of continuing skepticism about the possibility of official truth for both the left and the right. Sixty years later, it’s time to acknowledge that a major reason for this enduring suspicion is Kennedy himself.

  • Aug 18, 2023 | foreignaffairs.com | Tim Naftali |Timothy Naftali |Elliott Abrams |Joshua Kurlantzick

    “The game of politics is not a branch of the Sunday school business.” Such was the characterization of “Blind Boss” Buckley, the head of the Democratic political machine in San Francisco at the dawn of the twentieth century. American politics have long had the reputation of being ruthless, but until now, they had never involved a conspiracy directed from the White House to overturn the results of a presidential election.

  • Aug 16, 2023 | tribunecontentagency.com | Timothy Naftali

    “The game of politics is not a branch of the Sunday school business.” Such was the characterization of “Blind Boss” Buckley, the head of the Democratic political machine in San Francisco at the dawn of the twentieth century. American politics have long had the reputation of being ruthless, but until now, they had never involved […]To purchase full-length Foreign Affairs articles, please email Tribune Content Agency at [email protected]

  • Jun 25, 2023 | cnn.com | Timothy Naftali

    Editor’s Note: The CNN original series “The 2010s” looks back at a turbulent era marked by extraordinary political and social upheaval. New episodes air at 9 p.m. ET Sundays. Timothy Naftali is a clinical professor of public service at New York University and a CNN presidential historian. The views expressed in this commentary belong to the author. Read more opinion at CNN. CNN  —  On the night of January 6, 2021, it seemed undeniable that the country had passed through an epic watershed.

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Tim Naftali
Tim Naftali @TimNaftali
21 Apr 25

RT @EmmanuelMacron: De Buenos Aires à Rome, le Pape François voulait que l’Église apporte la joie et l’espoir aux plus pauvres. Qu’elle uni…

Tim Naftali
Tim Naftali @TimNaftali
21 Apr 25

RT @JoeBiden: It is with great sadness that Jill and I learned of the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis. He was unlike any who came befo…

Tim Naftali
Tim Naftali @TimNaftali
21 Apr 25

Pope Francis, RIP.

Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech: “How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear...”