First Principles for a New Progressive Foreign Policy
A new wave of progressive, left-wing, and socialist candidates and elected officials face an enormous challenge in articulating a foreign policy for the future. Here’s a start.
Before Trump Meets Xi, Look at What China Just Gave BRICS
America is trying to hold onto its superior tech while China is sharing with the rest.
Mutual Hedging, Not Mutual Defense
When former Biden administration official Ely Ratner last year proposed a binding, NATO-style “Pacific Defense Pact” with an integrated command structure among the United States, Japan, Australia, and the Philippines, he delivered an accidental indictment of a central...
Washington Keeps Abbas from the UN, Again
The Trump administration is violating its obligations, and the Palestinian Authority can’t do much about it.
Rising Diesel Price Is Iran War’s Hidden Tax
Washington sold the war as a national-security necessity. At the pump, loading dock, farm gate, and grocery aisle, Americans are paying the bill.
Why Does the Far Right Keep Winning Elections?
From Colombia to Peru to Saxony, the left is not offering voters a convincing economic alternative to globalization.
Can BRICS Usher in Its Third “Golden Decade”?
Managing acute geopolitical flashpoints like the U.S.-Iran standoff tests the bloc’s diplomatic maturity.
The Debt that Sustains American Power Is Becoming Much More Expensive
The Iran War is challenging America’s economic primacy.
Progressives Can Save Democrats’ Foreign Policy
Such a policy would put the needs of ordinary Americans before bloated Pentagon budgets and forever wars.
A Flood Disaster in Nepal
Blame fossil fuels and climate change.
U.S.-China AI Security Talks Need Shared Rules Not Grievances
Cooperation is the cheaper (and safer) alternative.
The Long Shadow of Osama bin Laden
The attacks of 9/11 were designed to push the United States into overextending itself militarily and enter an imperial tailspin.
Whither the National Endowment for Democracy?
After 43 years, what are the current challenges facing democracy and economic prosperity around the globe and what, if any, is the role of the NED in responding to them?
The SCO Comes Out of the Shadows
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has begun building new mechanisms, and the geopolitical environment around it has made those mechanisms more valuable.