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Global Crises

How Trump can navigate the new multi-polar world

Restraint can guide the president-elect in maintaining and elevating US interests

'We are the world power': Biden offers defense of US primacy
Washington Politics

'We are the world power': Biden offers defense of US primacy

In TIME interview, president talks up foreign policy record, offers few details on what second term would hold

The Pentagon keeps failing up — on your dime
Military Industrial Complex

The Pentagon keeps failing up — on your dime

A world-spanning grand strategy keeps weapons contractors rich while making Americans less safe

Japan-us-defense
Washington Politics

When 'internationalism' became a dirty word

Neocons and liberal interventionists have perverted the term to mean primacy and global power projection of the worst kind

Symposium: Peace or destruction — what was Kissinger's impact?
Washington Politics

Symposium: Peace or destruction — what was Kissinger's impact?

Wide range of experts and commentators weigh in on the conflicted legacy of an American statesman.

It’s time to embrace a ‘less-than-grand’ strategy
Washington Politics

It’s time to embrace a ‘less-than-grand’ strategy

The US would get into a lot less trouble abroad if it focused its attention a little bit closer to home.