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Washington Politics

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

If the administration truly wants to focus on our hemisphere we need to deepen the bench of specialists, not wipe it out

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Middle East

The ghosts of the Iraq War still haunt me, and our foreign policy

As a young National Guardsman I reported for duty on March 21, 2003. Why are there still troops there today?

Tulsi Gabbard
Washington Politics

Tulsi smears are an American tradition. They shouldn't be.

Calling Trump's DNI pick an 'asset or a dupe' has its roots in a long history of chilling anti-war speech

Trump has a mandate to end the Ukraine War
Europe

Trump has a mandate to end the Ukraine War

But first we must reject the shibboleths and superstitions that have come to define this conflict

​BRICS signals shift from US dominated financial system
Asia-Pacific

​BRICS signals shift from US dominated financial system

The bloc’s annual meeting in Russia this year welcomes new members pushing a wider mission

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Asia-Pacific

Is China's Xi era marked by primacy or something else?

Let's take a look through a historical, realist lens