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Robert Kagan
Washington Politics

Robert Kagan: Sometimes US intervention is worth blowback

In a wide-ranging interview with RS, the hawkish historian talks primacy, neoconservatives, and why he opposes the war in Iran

James Woolsey, influential neocon and Iraq War booster, dies at 84
QiOSK

James Woolsey, influential neocon and Iraq War booster, dies at 84

In his heyday, the former CIA director was among America's loudest voices pressing for military intervention abroad

Trump and Lindsey Graham
Middle East

Trump: When the only friends you have left are Bushies and neocons

The warmaking president is shedding his base. But the last ones on the MAGA bus may be the first to leap off at any sign of political trouble.

America First
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.

Israel’s foreign influence is the most unrelenting in US history
Washington Politics

Israel’s foreign influence is the most unrelenting in US history

There were a handful of times when external powers tried to steer us, but there is no comparing the decades-long grip of the Likud Party on Washington

Lindsey Graham, Elbridge Colby Mitch McConnell
Washington Politics

Summer of the 'isolationist' smear: Colby and restraint in crosshairs

"It’s been a pretty crappy 45 days" for those trying to keep the president from making the same mistakes as his predecessors