--- description: Tian is research director of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute and the co-author of the New York Times best-selling book Trump's Ten Commandments (Simon & Schuster/Worth). title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Steven Tian ## Steven Tian Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close _Tian is research director of the Yale Chief Executive_ Leadership Institute _and the co-author of the_ _New York Times_ _best-selling book_ [Trump's Ten Commandments](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Trumps-Ten-Commandments/Jeffrey-Sonnenfeld/9781637635568)(Simon & Schuster/Worth). ## Steven Tian Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Jun 22, 2026 ### [Trump, Iran and the Denial of Defeat](https://time.com/article/2026/06/22/trump-iran-war-denial-of-defeat/) President Donald Trump always declares victory and relentlessly repeats that narrative, regardless o... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 9, 2026 ### [How Trump Keeps Exploiting America’s Legal Loopholes](https://time.com/article/2026/06/09/how-trump-keeps-exploiting-america-s-legal-loopholes/) President Donald Trump continues to outfox constitutional cognoscenti by finding conniving cracks in... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 23, 2026 ### [How Ukraine Found the Cards To Win, Without Help From the U.S.](https://time.com/article/2026/05/23/how-ukraine-found-the-cards-to-win-without-help-from-the-u-s-/) Kyiv’s revolutionary drone industry has turned the tide against Russia’s invasion. [WORLD](/section/world/) *  May 11, 2026 ### [Colonies in Collision: What Some Allied Leaders Get Wrong About Trump](https://time.com/article/2026/05/11/what-allied-leaders-get-wrong-about-trump/) President Donald Trump probes the limits of what is permissible, pressing forward to test resistance... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 8, 2026 ### [Why We Predicted Trump’s Iran Ceasefire](https://time.com/article/2026/04/08/why-we-predicted-trump-s-iran-ceasefire/) "Trump’s Iran ceasefire was anything but surprising and mirrors his career-long instincts across pol... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Mar 25, 2026 ### [The Method to Trump’s Madness](https://time.com/article/2026/03/25/the-method-to-trump-s-madness/) In their new book, 'Trump’s Ten Commandments,' Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian break down the Pre... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 10, 2026 ### [Trump’s Denial of Defeat](https://time.com/7377361/trump-denial-of-defeat-harvard/) One of the most consistent through-lines of President Donald Trump's career has been to reject those... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 7, 2026 ### [Trump’s Obama Video Was a Diversion, Not an Accident Trump’s Obama Video Was a Diversion, Not an Accident](https://time.com/7372895/trump-obama-video-diversion/) "Rather than an inadvertent mistake, this episode epitomizes Trump’s approach to intentionally creat... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jan 29, 2026 ### [Trump Shouts Loudly and Fumbles a Big Stick](https://time.com/7361971/donald-trump-shouts-loudly-fumbles-big-stick/) From Greenland to Minnesota, some of Trump's tried-and-true leadership tools are backfiring on him. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 16, 2025 ### [Trump’s Summit Need Not Be an Echo of Appeasement](https://time.com/7310116/trump-putin-summit-appeasement/) "The truth is that even now, Trump holds all the leverage while Putin has none." [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 9, 2025 ### [Trump Has the Upper Hand Going into His Meeting with Putin](https://time.com/7308613/trump-upper-hand-putin-meeting/) "Ahead of their meeting on Aug. 15, Trump needs to remember that he holds all the cards—while Putin ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 2, 2025 ### [How Trump's Decision to Fire BLS Chief Echoes Putin’s Strategies](https://time.com/7307097/trump-fires-bureau-labor-statistics-chief-putin-playbook/) While Trump may or may not be friends with Putin, he is clearly following the Russian President’s HR... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 24, 2025 ### [Volodomyr Zelensky Must Stand Up to Corruption](https://time.com/7305230/zelensky-stand-up-to-corruption/) Recent measures to strip Ukrainian's anti-corruption institutions of power were a mistake. Now, Zele... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 26, 2025 ### [What Will Really Happen if New York City Goes Socialist](https://time.com/7298149/nyc-socialist-zohran-mamdani-capitalism-essay/) Zohran Mamdani’s economic proposals do not match the real challenges of today [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 22, 2025 ### [Taking Out Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Usher In a New Dawn](https://time.com/7296553/us-iran-strike-israel-trump/) Trump’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites appear to mark a pivotal step toward Middle East peace. 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