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U.S. Foreign Policy May 21, 2019 Essay

American Hustle

Donald Trump and the Mueller report are x-rays, revealing much of what has gone awry in American politics and society in recent years.

Stephen Kotkin

Trump and Putin at a news conference in Helsinki, Finland, July 2018

Intelligence May/June 2019 Essay

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms

Russian social media meddling in the 2016 U.S. election should serve as a wake-up call: U.S. intelligence community must shift its focus from counterterrorism to a...

Amy Zegart and Michael Morell

Cracking the code: at CIA headquarters, Langley, Virginia, June 2010

Foreign Policy May/June 2019 Essay

The Longest Wars

Richard Holbrooke helped normalize U.S. relations with China; served as U.S. ambassador to a newly reunified Germany and then to the United Nations; and, most famously...

George Packer

Holbrooke in central Vietnam, early 1967

Economics May/June 2019 Essay

All the King’s Consultants

Experts play valuable and highly visible roles advising leaders in wealthy liberal democracies and international institutions. But far less is known about what they do...

Calvert W. Jones

MBS talks with King Salman during the GCC Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 2018

Security May/June 2019 Essay

The New Revolution in Military Affairs

For the U.S. military to succeed on the battlefields of the future, it will need a force built around large numbers of small, inexpensive, expendable, and highly...

Christian Brose

The competition: a CH-7 drone on display in Zhuhai city, China, November 2018

War & Military Strategy May/June 2019 Essay

Killer Apps

The real danger of an AI arms race isn't that another country would win; it's that unsafe technologies would make everyone lose.

Paul Scharre

Seeing like a state: a SenseTime surveillance software demo in Beijing, October 2017

Civil Society May/June 2019 Essay

The Dark Side of Sunlight

The so-called sunshine reforms of the 1970s were meant to make Congress more accountable to the public by making it more transparent. Instead, they achieved the...

James D'Angelo and Brent Ranalli

The dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., September 2012

Trump Administration May/June 2019 Essay

Hard Truths in Syria

With the impending troop reductions decreed by Trump, Washington must lower its sights in Syria. It should focus on protecting only two interests: preventing ISIS from...

Brett McGurk

Light footprint: U.S. soldiers in Manbij, Syria, November 2018

Ideology May/June 2019 Essay

The New German Question

The failure of the European Union, if it occurs, will bring back what used to be known as “the German question”—how to deal with a country at the heart of Europe that...

Robert Kagan

Über alles: Alternative for Germany supporters at a rally in Berlin, May 2014

U.S. Foreign Policy May/June 2019 Essay

The Lost Art of American Diplomacy

The United States must rebuild American diplomacy and make it the tool of first resort.

William J. Burns

The good old days: George H.W. Bush with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Secretary of State James Baker, February 1990

Civil Society March/April 2019 Essay

The Kurdish Awakening

The United States’ actions in the Middle East have helped promote a new Kurdish nationalism.

Henri J. Barkey

This land is our land: Kurdish peshmerga forces in Makhmur, Iraq, August 2014.

Global Institutions March/April 2019 Essay

Educate to Liberate

By opening access to higher education, colleges have a chance to save liberal values and fight populism.

Carla Norrlof

The old college try: at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, November 2015

U.S. Foreign Policy March/April 2019 Essay

The Future of the Liberal Order Is Conservative

America doesn't have to choose between retrenchment and ambition; conservatism can keep what has been won and forestall a backlash.

Jennifer Lind and William C. Wohlforth

The USS Carl Vinson conducts an exercise with the Japanese Navy in the Philippine Sea, April 2017.

Environment March/April 2019 Essay

Less Than Zero

Negative Emission Technologies—technologies that remove carbon dioxide from the air—are a crucial complement to carbon-neutral technologies.

Fred Krupp, Nathaniel Keohane, and Eric Pooley

Climeworks, a facility for capturing carbon dioxide from the air, in Hinwil, Switzerland, July 2017

Security March/April 2019 Essay

The New Containment

During the Cold War, the United States chose to contain the Soviet Union, successfully deterring its military aggression and limiting its political influence for...

Michael Mandelbaum

Eye in the sky: a U.S. Navy helicopter in the South China Sea, October 2015

Civil Society March/April 2019 Essay

No Country for Strongmen

After four years under BJP Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is not about to descend into "Hindutva" ethnonationalism, sectarian violence, or strongman rule....

Ruchir Sharma

Economics March/April 2019 Essay

Who’s Afraid of Budget Deficits?

It's time for Washington to focus on bigger things.

Jason Furman and Lawrence H. Summers

Budget buster: Trump after signing a tax bill, Washington, D.C., December 2017

Civil Society March/April 2019 Essay

The Importance of Elsewhere

Kwame Anthony Appiah makes the case for cosmopolitanism. The supposed incompatibility of nationalism and cosmopolitanism, he argues, is based on a misunderstanding,...

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Containing multitudes: pedestrians on the Brooklyn Bridge, December 2018

Venezuela Jan 4, 2019 Essay

El Suicidio de Venezuela

El socialismo y los bajos precios del petróleo a menudo son señalados como causas de la catástrofe venezolana. En realidad, fueron décadas de liderazgos tóxicos bajo...

Moisés Naím and Francisco Toro

Un manifestante sostiene una bandera en llamas en una protesta en contra del presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro en Caracas, en junio del 2017.

Peacekeeping January/February 2019 Essay

The Crisis of Peacekeeping

UN peacekeeping missions fail because they rely on top-down solutions rather than bottom-up strategies that draw on local knowledge.

Séverine Autesserre

A UN peacekeeper on a patrol in Kiwanja, Democratic Republic of Congo, November 2008

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American Hustle

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms

The Longest Wars

All the King’s Consultants

The New Revolution in Military Affairs

Killer Apps

The Dark Side of Sunlight

Hard Truths in Syria

The New German Question

The Lost Art of American Diplomacy

The Kurdish Awakening

Educate to Liberate

The Future of the Liberal Order Is Conservative

Less Than Zero

The New Containment

No Country for Strongmen

Who’s Afraid of Budget Deficits?

The Importance of Elsewhere

El Suicidio de Venezuela

The Crisis of Peacekeeping

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ISWA Tries to Win Over Some Nigerians While Killing Others

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The Link Between Foreign Languages and U.S. National Security

Aung San Suu Kyi’s Major Speech on Rakhine State

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