Along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt is often hailed as one of the United States’ greatest presidents.…
For many, like me, who worked on policy toward Afghanistan for years, recent leaks about an impending agreement between the U.S. and the…
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Commentators of many stripes increasingly refer to the deteriorating relationship between the United States and China as a new “cold war.â€â€¦
Americans have repeatedly expressed their frustration with the overly ambitious and mostly failed strategy of liberal hegemony that has…
Dear President Donald Trump: We’ve never met, and given that you’re not much of a reader, I doubt you even know who I am. But maybe—just…
As the Trump administration accuses Iran of attacking oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, rising tensions create a real danger of stumbling…
This might be disturbing news to some readers, but the New York Times columnist David Brooks is very unhappy with the American people. Why…
The Pentagon is the headquarters of the single largest institution in America: the Department of Defense. The D.O.D. employs millions of…
When we teach, write, or think about foreign policy, there’s a tendency to focus our attention on extremes, either on prominent examples of…