At Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting, late last month, Elon Musk sheepishly admitted that DOGE had “accidentally canceled very briefly” Ebola-prevention programs. After a nervous chuckle, he claimed that the oversight had...

Four floors up, I’d look up from my work and cherish the little arc of calm I felt from time to time.I liked a drink, and to pose myself a problem I could not always solve.Now and again, I’d bite into a lemon, to clear my...

For three years, I was President Barack Obama’s Russia adviser on the National Security Council and, for two, the U.S. ambassador to Russia. In that time, no assumption drove me crazier than this one about Russian President...