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The US Army is about to get smaller, especially in Europe

Trump tasks first time envoy with the most complex Africa conflict

Mr. Trump, you would've been lucky to have Dan Davis on your team

Is it 'beautiful'? Sizing up Trump foreign policy in one speech

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US troops headed to Panama

With Iran talks, Trump could achieve a triple win

US-China trade war is on: Could it turn violent, and when?

The fix is in for new Air Force F-47 — and so is the failure

The US Army is about to get smaller, especially in Europe

Steve Witkoff Iran talks
Middle East

Should human rights derail US-Iran talks?

Listen to the civil society advocates in Tehran — not Israel or American war hawks, both who want to prolong hostilities and prefer war

soft power
Washington Politics

Debate: Slashing studies, research aid will doom US foreign policy

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Washington Politics

Debate: Federal funding fuels failing foreign policy hive mind

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Military Industrial Complex

From barracks to battleships, cost control is MIA

Alliance of Sahel States
Africa

Bad timing for an African trade war

QiOSK

Staff quick takes, dispatches, and breaking news

Marco Rubio
QiOSK

Rubio: Trump ready to walk away from Ukraine peace talks

But if we are going to threaten, there needs to be some clear demands first

Diplomacy Watch: Trump and Zelensky announce Minerals deal

Officials: US 'open' to supporting a Yemen ground operation

10,000 US troops begin arriving at Mexico border

US troops headed to Panama

Asia-Pacific

Vietnam tariffs trade

Vietnam's fortunes actually take a dramatic turn, and not for worst

Donald Trump Xi Jinping

US-China trade war is on: Could it turn violent, and when?

Lai Ching-te Taiwan China

Taiwan's president turns up heat against China — way up.

Rodrigo Duterte

How the US bankrolled Duterte's alleged crimes against humanity

Middle east

Steve Witkoff Iran talks

Should human rights derail US-Iran talks?

Listen to the civil society advocates in Tehran — not Israel or American war hawks, both who want to prolong hostilities and prefer war

Outside the Bubble Watch the latest QI reports

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Three huge things DOGE can cut at the Pentagon now

Washington Politics

soft power

Debate: Slashing studies, research aid will doom US foreign policy

hive mind

Debate: Federal funding fuels failing foreign policy hive mind

Bukele Trump Garcia

In Garcia, SCOTUS risks handing Trump a ‘loaded weapon’

JFK wanted to splinter CIA ‘into a thousand pieces.’ Why didn't he?

JFK wanted to splinter CIA ‘into a thousand pieces.’ Why didn't he?

Africa

Alliance of Sahel States

Bad timing for an African trade war

Saudi Arabia chooses sides in Sudan's civil war

Trump tasks first time envoy with the most complex Africa conflict

M23 & Rwanda are trying to redraw the map and it's all about to blow

Latin America

CELAC Venezuela

Forecast in the Americas: Uncertainty with a chance of Trump

How Brazil will dance with Trump's America

Trump's Latin American sticks could end up stuck in his spokes

Lobbyists pushing disastrous 'Plan Ecuador' for struggling president

Europe

European rearmament: Shuffling fake money around a monopoly board?

Can hockey diplomacy ice out chill in US-Russia ties?

Why a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine is pointless

north america

Trump should take the victory in Canada and move on

Trump should take the victory in Canada and move on

What awaits Marco Rubio in the Caribbean

Haiti's crisis deepens as foreign troops struggle to curb violence

Trumponomics: Global South is girding for tariffs — or not

Military Industrial Complex

Trump team opts to keep US shell companies in the shadows

Trump team opts to keep US shell companies in the shadows

Administration 'unleashes' ability for these entities to do their dirty work in illicit arms transfers and fraudulent military contracts

Media

Alexander Vindman's new book is a folly: of history, and the truth

Alexander Vindman's new book is a folly: of history, and the truth

Donald Trump Miriam Adelson

The Israeli-American Trump mega-donor behind speech crackdowns

Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria, stuck somewhere in 1950 or 1995, is wrong again

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And the Oscar goes to ... the Pentagon!

Global Crises

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How Trump tariffs are affecting allies, frenemies, adversaries

Every corner of the planet is feeling the shock, but some are facing more peril than others.