How Kissinger Came in From the Cold

John Bolton's long summer got even longer just before Labor Day weekend.

In May, President Donald Trump publicly and privately distancedhimself from his hawkish national security adviser, particularly on Iran and North Korea. Every few weeks since then, the media have documented someone else—a TV personality, a retired general, a senator or two—who has the president's ear on foreign policy and wondered why Trump has kept Bolton around at all. Then, last week, the Washington Post reportedBolton had been cut out of a briefing on the U.S. plan to end the war in Afghanistan by way of a peace deal he has opposed.