Donald Disappoints Davos
If the global elite was expecting a show, they didn’t get it.
Steve Clemons
Steve Clemons is a former Washington editor at Large at The Atlantic and editor of AtlanticLIVE. Clemons is a senior fellow and the founder of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, a centrist think tank in Washington, D.C., where he previously served as executive vice president. He writes and speaks frequently about the D.C. political scene, foreign policy, and national security issues, as well as domestic and global economic-policy challenges.
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