Principled pragmatism is not about abandoning values. It is about defending them with means that are realistic, sustainable ...

U.S. experts on Friday underlined pragmatism as a key driver of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's diplomacy to navigate ...

Foreign policy under Keir Starmer underlines the historical limits of idealism in the British approach to matters abroad.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has described her plan to "maximize extraction" of the UK's oil and gas from the North Sea as a "common sense" energy policy. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Peter Godfrey-Smith: Thanks very much. Alan Saunders: I suppose the right way to begin a discussion of ...

Not long ago, I spoke at a university in New Jersey. I told students about the 33 members of my family killed in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. I described the horrors afflicting my homeland, made a ...

Chris Hayes offers up a must-read analysis of the Obama apparatchiks, the media stenographers, and acolytes of perceived wisdom who claim pragmatism has won out over ideology: ...through a kind of ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. That’s all well and good, though I’m not as optimistic as they are that the ...

People may still mouth the necessary platitudes, but they now live mostly by whatever works regardless of how it works. Actions are assessed in terms of what they are able to effect, not the ...

Chris Hayes critiques the Obama-as-pragmatist meme from the left ... The chief failure of Bushism, according to Sunstein, is not its content but its form. Not the substance of ideology but the fact ...