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Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un trading threats with words like “fire and fury”; Pakistan deploying tactical nuclear weapons to counter Indian…
The Trump administration’s newly unveiled national security strategy lists reinforcing America’s alliances as a major objective. Yet in the…
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The Foreign Service, our country’s irreplaceable asset for understanding and interacting with a complex and dangerous world, is facing…
When I began my career in elementary particle physics, the great figures who taught and inspired me had been part of the Manhattan Project…
For decades, fears of energy scarcity drove American energy diplomacy. The dependence of the global economy on oil, and America’s need to…
We come from different political parties and don’t agree on much when it comes to public policy, but one thing uniting us is the belief…
It has now been 12 months since Donald J. Trump was elected President of the United States, a man who as a candidate for the job called the…
President Donald Trump’s advisers are at pains to emphasize that Friday’s speech on Iran policy was an effort to lay out a comprehensive…