Mary Dejevsky

The one-term president’s humiliation by Iranian revolutionaries kicked off a decades-long American grudge, Mary Dejevsky writes

Have Democrats at last found a credible champion in the California governor – and can he exploit his LA stand-off with the president to become a 2028 White House contender, asks Mary Dejevsky

The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ passing into law is the crowning achievement of the president’s first six months in the White House, a time marked by more wins than losses. But, says Mary Dejevsky, the US capital remains baffled by the president’s ability to get what he wants – and his enduring popularity in the country at large 

By agreeing to meet the US president during his trip to his two Scottish resorts, the prime minister risks not only becoming the focus of the inevitable protests – but also the negative blowback from British public opinion, says Mary Dejevsky

If the proposed bilateral talks between the US and Russia go beyond a ceasefire in Ukraine and encompass wider issues of security, that might be sufficient to convince Putin to show up – and even invite Zelensky along, too, says Mary Dejevsky

After a humiliating no-confidence vote, Emmanuel Macron begins his search for a fifth French prime minister in less than two years, which will test the country’s governability and could end with a drastic power shift – it might also be bad news for the British prime minister and his coalition of the willing, says Mary Dejevsky

America’s dramatic seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker by crack troops is deliberate show of its forceful new foreign policy, writes Mary Dejevsky: less global policeman, more policing its own hemisphere

At least seven EU countries objected to Russia’s confiscated billions being diverted to Ukraine over fear of reprisals, writes Mary Dejevsky. But Russia has little to crow about, as it’s no closer to getting its cash back

With the panicking Europeans running scared of US tariff threats once again, the Arctic circle of Trump’s dealmaking would seem to be complete – and, worryingly, he seems even more pleased with himself than usual, writes Mary Dejevsky

After a video clip (quickly taken down) showed the Russian president spluttering, rumours of his ill health have circulated – but, writes Mary Dejevsky, tracking his potential demise doesn’t mean that whoever comes next will provide anything different for the rest of the world