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Trump, George w. Bush, Bill Clinton
Washington Politics

All aboard America's strategic blunder train. Next stop: Iran

Our stumbling into war with Tehran would be the latest in a self-inflicted 30-year road to nowhere

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.

world powers
Asia-Pacific

US-China symposium: Spheres of influence for me, not for thee?

The administration is asserting its security imperative in the Western Hemisphere but what happens when American interests collide with China's 'near abroad'? We asked 14 experts.

Zbigniew Brzezinski Camp David Summit
Media

Zbigniew Brzezinski: Foreign policy prophet or blind man?

Ed Luce's ‘cradle to grave’ bio of President Carter’s grand strategist plumbs his hits and misses on Afghanistan and Russia and their impacts today

Trump and Lindsey Graham
Washington Politics

Does MAGA want Trump to ‘make regime change great again’?

The president went from praising ‘the wars we never get into’ to seeing how many the US can get into, and prominent members of his base are eating it up


Ngo Dinh Diem assassination
Washington Politics

JFK oversaw Vietnam decapitation. He didn't live to witness the rest.

A coup likely set unto motion by Kennedy memo ended with the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem in fall of 1963. Two years later, the US was fully at war.