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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 Polk
Washington Politics

On Greenland, Trump wants to be like Polk

The president's motivation isn't security or money, it's manifest destiny

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


Ambassador Robert Hunter
Europe

RIP Amb. Robert Hunter, who warned about NATO expansion

His work in both the Carter and Clinton administrations reflected sober analysis and the pursuit of engaging Russia and Iran rather than isolating them

Congress
Military Industrial Complex

Congress should walk Trump's talk on arms industry stock buybacks

Now that the president has identified the problem, lawmakers have a real opportunity to follow through

Israel
Washington Politics

Who are the 'influencers' Israel is paying $7k per post?

We actually don't know and that's likely illegal