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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speak to the media prior to talks at the Chancellery on August 27, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.

When Allies Go Nuclear

The year is 2030. Seismic monitors have just detected an unforeseen underground atomic explosion, signaling that yet another country has joined the growing club of nuclear-armed states. There are now…

Chuck Hagel, Malcolm Rifkind, Kevin Rudd, Ivo H. Daalder 20 February 2021

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei delivers remarks on Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran Nuclear Issue in 2015 between five permanent members of United Nations Security Council, Germany and Iran on February 17, 2021 in Tehran, Iran.

Tehran Pushes Washington Toward Confrontation

The Iranian parliament is set to challenge Washington’s commitment to reviving the JCPOA by stepping even further out of compliance itself, presenting the new administration with an uncomfortable…

Joseph Braude 19 February 2021

The Charging Bull bronze sculpture, also known as Wall Street Bull or Bowling Green Bull in New York City with tourists around taking photos of it as it is a landmark, a tourist destination, a popular attraction and symbol for Wall Street and Financial District as well with aggressive financial optimism and prosperity, wealth and luck, located on Broadway at the Financial District of Manhattan.

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It has become a matter of general agreement among citizens of the richest country on earth that things are not going so well. The United States in its 245th year is an ailing nation—socially,…

Binyamin Appelbaum 19 February 2021

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) enters the U.S. Capitol Building on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

What’s Next for GOP Senators Refusing to Convict Trump

It always seemed unlikely that Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate Republican leader, would vote to convict the disgraced ex-president who, even from exile in Mar-a-Lago, holds sway over…

Doyle McManus 20 February 2021

Raghad Saddam Hussein: Her Father’s Defense and Prospects of Political Involvement in Iraq

Raghad Saddam Hussein is the eldest daughter of Saddam Hussein, the late president of Iraq. She took the responsibility of helping her father during the trial after which he was eventually executed…

Majalla 19 February 2021

China Has Made Drone Warfare Global

Drone warfare is one of the most important international security developments of the twenty-first century.The United Stateshas conducted thousands of drone strikes, ranging from attacks on nonstate…

Michael C. Horowitz Joshua A. Schwartz and Matthew Fuhrmann 27 November 2020

Defense In Depth

The world is not getting safer, forthe United Statesor forU.S.interests. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the 2017 National Defense Strategy described an international environment of increased…

Kori Schake Jim Mattis Jim Ellis and Joe Felter 27 November 2020

To Counter China, Look to Canada and Mexico

If there is broad bipartisan agreement on anything inWashingtontoday, it is thatthe United Stateshas become dangerously dependent on Chinese production. N-95 masks, essential drugs, components for…

Roberta Jacobson and Tom Wyler 07 August 2020

The New Anti-Americanism

Anti-Americanism has surged in much of the world sinceU.S.PresidentDonald Trumptook office. New polling from thePew Research Centershows that global ratings for Trump are similar to those…

Richard Wike 17 January 2020

Supporters of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force protest outside the US embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on January 1, 2020 to condemn the US air strikes. (Getty)

The Death of the U.S.-Iraqi Relationship

The assassination of Iranian GeneralQasem Soleimanion the outskirts ofBaghdadwas a major escalation in the conflict betweenthe United StatesandIran. But theU.S.drone strike that killed the…

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