When the world's at stake,
go beyond the headlines.

This week we go it alone to focus on your questions! We force Radha and Loren to actually define their true loves of process and staffing, all while drinking delicious white sangria. Plus, what’s a wonk? Then we dig into the president’s whirlwind trip, upcoming U.K. elections and Erin and Radha’s obsession with measurement error, how to make decisions on major international agreements after a Frenchman shakes your hand too hard, and whether the world is really as zero-sum as reality TV.

Reading:

• The Role and Purpose of the National Security Advisor, Steve Hadley, Texas A&M
• What Did Trump Accomplish on His First Foreign Trip?, Eliot Cohen, The Atlantic
• The U.K. Snap Election Is Riskier Than It Seems, Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight
• Are the UK Polls Skewed, Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight
• Trump abdicates US leadership on climate change, Ernie Moniz, The Boston Globe
• Paris decision underscores the visceral expression of Trump’s worldview, Dan Balz, The Washington Post
• Trump Hands the Chinese a Gift: The Chance for Global Leadership, David Sanger and Jane Perlez, The New York Times
• America First Doesn’t Mean America Alone, HR McMaster & Gary Cohn, The Wall Street Journal
• The most extraordinary op-ed of 2017, Dan Drezner, The Washington Post
  Trump administration moves to return Russian compounds in Maryland and New York, Karen DeYoung and Adam Entous, The Washington Post
• Justin Trudeau Met Emmanuel Macron, Making Bromantic Dreams Come True,  Jerry Portwood, Rolling Stone 
• I Took A Military Vet to Brad Pitt’s Bad Anti-War Movie. He liked itGreg Jaffe, The Washington Post
• Oh Thank God, ‘Wonder Woman’ Is Good, Rebecca Pahle, Pajiba