Washington Politics
The death of 'America First'
The phrase has been corrupted and distorted by hawks cheering on a more interventionist Trump foreign policy. Time for something new.
February 06, 2026
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Asia-Pacific
US-China symposium: Spheres of influence for me, not for thee?
The administration is asserting its security imperative in the Western Hemisphere but what happens when American interests collide with China's 'near abroad'? We asked 14 experts.
January 30, 2026
Media
Zbigniew Brzezinski: Foreign policy prophet or blind man?
Ed Luce's ‘cradle to grave’ bio of President Carter’s grand strategist plumbs his hits and misses on Afghanistan and Russia and their impacts today
January 22, 2026
Washington Politics
Does MAGA want Trump to ‘make regime change great again’?
The president went from praising ‘the wars we never get into’ to seeing how many the US can get into, and prominent members of his base are eating it up
January 14, 2026
Washington Politics
JFK oversaw Vietnam decapitation. He didn't live to witness the rest.
A coup likely set unto motion by Kennedy memo ended with the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem in fall of 1963. Two years later, the US was fully at war.
January 08, 2026
Latin America
South Florida: When local politics become rogue US foreign policy
Miami-Dade's anti-Castro lobby is already rallying for Cuba next after Saturday's regime change operation in Venezuela
January 05, 2026
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