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Hillary has championed what has come to be known as “civil society.” In practice that means moving beyond the usual contacts between the United States and foreign governments to forge ties with the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that...

most conspicuously her use of American diplomatic leverage in the U.N. Security Council to get China and especially Russia to help isolate Iran and North Korea. She and the president have convinced the Russians that proffering military hard...

she consulted all the living secretaries of state and lots of experts on what she could get done at Foggy Bottom. I ask her what they advised

the president and secretary of state have a lot in common in the way their minds work—more

where she could go on autopilot and give the same speech six times in a day

Hillary changes out of her trademark pantsuit (yellow is her favorite color for clothes and in the décor of her homes) into a fleece top and sweats. Meals consist largely of fruit and vegetables (she has a special taste for hot peppers) and...

and it’s usually frustrating. She’s terrific off the record: blunt

with whom she meets a few times a week when neither is on the road. She gave me a predictable answer

” but being a great secretary of state requires more than energy

Hillary’s own vessel is solid and surprisingly leakproof. One of the least-noticed changes in American public life is how she has been transformed from a subject of constant gossip and calumny into a figure of consequence and little controv...

” one leader told Hillary. “You should see what we say about you.” Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi wasn’t so forgiving. In 2008 the loutish media baron and billionaire had described Barack Obama as “young

the Arab Spring and its aftermath will shape just one critical piece of his record. But

Sarkozy had gallantly steadied her after a shoe had come off her foot as she climbed the stone steps of the Élysée Palace. (“I may not be Cinderella but you’re certainly my Prince Charming!” Hillary inscribed a photo

but for six crucial days in March she might just as well have used her seat belt as a fashion accessory

after the Arab League voted to request action from the U.N. Security Council—an extraordinary decision to break Arab ranks and ask the nations they had for so long denounced as colonialists to help. “Their statement moved her

and by midmorning she was in the Oval Office conferring with President Obama. The night before

a former senior official in the State and Defense Departments

America and Russia) reduce their stockpiles and move toward nuclear disarmament. It will be many moons and unerringly effective inspections before leaders in Washington and Moscow contemplate such a course. Surely ElBaradei knows this.

for however long it takes and whatever the risk that nuclear weapons will be built in the meantime. He exhibits more sympathy for non-Western proliferators and their needs than for the major powers and their security and political concerns....

which he writes “were rooted much deeper