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Political leaders keep saying that the United States is on a war footing as it confronts COVID-19. But the military is the wrong tool to address it, even if war spending is — in part — what got the U.S. into this health crisis. As Costs of War Co-Director and Quincy Institute board member Catherine Lutz explains, we need to fundamentally rethink what national security means so it can focus civilian solutions toward very real societal risks many are currently experiencing — ill health and inequality. Watch:

This video is adapted from an op-ed by Lutz and Neta C. Crawford that originally appeared in the Hill.

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Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and the GOP’s reckoning on Israel

Top image credit, from left to right: Nick Fuentes appears on the Tucker Carlson show (screengrab via x.com); Kevin Roberts (Gage Skidmore/Flickr/Creative Commons); Tucker Carlson (Gage Skidmore/Flickr/Creative Commons)

Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and the GOP’s reckoning on Israel

Washington Politics

For years, a debate over Israel has been raging behind the scenes of Republican politics.

Then, last week, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts thrust that battle into the open.

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Top photo caption: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivers remarks during an address at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., Sept. 30, 2025. (photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Aiko Bongolan)

Hegseth dropped big Venezuela easter egg into Quantico speech

On September 30, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth summoned nearly 800 of America’s military generals, admirals, and senior enlisted officers to Quantico, Virginia on short notice. Though the unprecedented event was written off by many as a political stunt, a month later, it is clear the gathering was more important than many realized.

Of particular note were the speeches delivered by Hegseth and President Donald Trump which offer the clearest articulation yet of how the Trump administration thinks about and hopes to use military power. What’s more, taken together, the two sets of remarks appear to foreshadow both the current U.S. military build-up underway in the Caribbean and what might be on the horizon as U.S. operations there and elsewhere continue.

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