That will require a true foreign policy revolution that grapples not just with the outrages and failures of the Trump administration’s foreign policy but also with the ways in which past Democratic or ...

For many, Morgenthau’s contributions begin and end with his identification of power as the key determinant of state behavior. But this reading misses one of his core observations: that even if humans ...

China’s worldview treats development as equivalent to capital accumulation and sees productivity as determined by the control and deployment of technology. It posits that the growth of the service ...

With the midterms over, U.S. President Donald Trump is now a lame duck. Second-term presidents who lose control of Congress have to face the reality that the time for signature legislation or other ...

For everyone involved, the war in Iran has been a strategic failure. The United States and Israel have shown that they can achieve a few military objectives, such as sinking Iran’s navy. But after ...

In 2015, the North Korean diplomat Thae Yong Ho received an unusual assignment. Kim Jong Chol, the older brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was coming to London to attend an Eric Clapton ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dominated his country’s politics for the last four decades, and his influence will not end even if Israelis vote him out of office. Over the course of his ...

Article I of the Constitution gives Congress sweeping powers to raise, maintain, and equip the armed forces. But the current Congress has done little to use these powers. The intense, frenetic ...

The United States and its allies are finally taking supply chains for critical minerals seriously. China has spent the last three decades building a dominant share of global mineral production, and ...

The United States and China are locked in a global competition to determine who will dominate artificial intelligence and whether it will be democracies or autocracies that set the standards and ...

The midterm elections mark the beginning of the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential campaign. After two years of debate over the lessons of Kamala Harris’s defeat in the 2024 election, it promises to ...

All of these are important, but an equally significant vulnerability is often left off the list: China’s reliance on soybean imports. Beijing recognizes this liability. At the 20th Party Congress, in ...