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Nov 13, 2025
The surreal spectacle of Ahmed al-Sharaa strolling through the White House—greeting supporters, playing basketball with American military officials, and schmoozing with...
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Nov 8, 2025
Academic yearning for another grand diplomatic summit to restore global balance and stability is magical thinking
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Oct 27, 2025
Renewed focus on Latin America is a welcome shift—but only if it truly advances U.S. interests.
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Oct 22, 2025
As the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas limps into its second week, Washington’s foreign policy establishment is engaged in its favorite parlor game: declaring...
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Oct 11, 2025
The announcement this week that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a new ceasefire framework represents a welcome respite from the catastrophic war that has ravaged...
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Sep 16, 2025
Failed policy based on inflated sense of U.S. agency and poor understanding of how power actually works in the 21st century
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Sep 12, 2025
George HW Bush’s famous 1990 speech embodied an era when American power seemed unlimited. Thirty-five years later, we know better.
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Aug 26, 2025
European-style nation-states are a failed model for the Middle East.
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Aug 20, 2025
Notion that personal relationships between leaders can transcend deep structural conflicts reflects a peculiarly American faith
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Aug 16, 2025
Should America really send its daughters and sons to die in the Taiwan Strait?
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Aug 7, 2025
The Trump administration’s tariff policy reveals a dangerous zero-sum approach to competition with China.
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Apr 9, 2025
U.S. sanctions have only entrenched the Maduro regime and opened up the country to Russian and Chinese penetration.
