The Board of Peace and Other Dangerous Fantasies

From Davos humiliation to ICE violence, the world is starting to ask whether Trump is fit to rule anything at all.

Jan 22, 2026

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Good morning! The week in Davos began the way so many Trump-era international moments now do: with an American official lecturing Europe, Europe recoiling, and the rest of the world quietly recalculating how much longer it can pretend this is normal.

At a private World Economic Forum dinner hosted by BlackRock’s Larry Fink, the sort of velvet-rope gather…

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