Saudi Arabia’s Big Power Play

How the conservative Middle Eastern heavyweight is hedging its bets on a Biden administration.

President Donald Trump and King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia attend the meeting of the Leaders of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf Countries, Sunday, May 21, 2017, at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

“When can we stop thinking about Trump every minute?” laments the New York Times today. The New York Times can rest easy; the world may soon have far more important, and dire, things to occupy the news-cycle than the Twitter antics of Donald Trump.