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The Historical Presidency

Sara Gironi Carnevale illustrated a conceptual series for Foreign Policy’s package of essays: The Historical Presidency — what the global past reveals about our confounding present.

The Human Rights Presidency.
Jimmy Carter made foreign policy feel moral again, but that era might be over.
The End of Modernity – A crisis is unfolding before our eyes—and also in our heads.
How a Nazi Jurist Captured Imaginations on the U.S. Left and Right.
It’s Carl Schmitt’s world, and we’re all just living in it.
Is This an American Cultural Revolution?
Liberal critics charge Trump with creating a cult of personality not unlike Mao Zedong’s.

A Man, a Plan, and a Long History of Overplayed Hands
Trump did not invent hardball U.S. diplomacy with Panama. Then, as now, it is doomed to backfire.