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David IgnatiusWashington Post |
After last week’s stunning political defeat at home, the Trump administration is looking for new ways to settle the disastrous wars in Ukraine and...
U.S. Midterm Elections Analysis and arguments. Mathematics has a branch called “catastrophe theory,” which analyzes how mounting pressure can lead...
As the risk of renewed conflict with Iran increases, Vice President JD Vance has messaged the top hard-line leader in Tehran saying that he’s ready...
We should think about artificial intelligence safety as a race against time. Nobody knows what dangers the technology might bring. But by the time the...
Foreign & Public Diplomacy As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with U.S. and European officials Tuesday in Oslo on Oct. 20 to discuss...
For the past year, President Donald Trump has been waging a multifront campaign to rewrite the rules for the 2026 midterm elections and avoid a GOP...
Foreign & Public Diplomacy Russia’s War in Ukraine Understanding the conflict four years on. Maybe it’s a measure of Ukraine’s wartime...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is at war. The enemy, for better or worse, is the U.S. military leadership and its traditional structure for...
We seem to be living in the age of the autocrats, where Presidents Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin bestride the globe. The gathering this...
Science and Technology Should we worry about the dangers posed by artificial intelligence? Of course we should. But a greater worry for me right now...
Why was former Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell able to stand up to President Donald Trump when so many others capitulated—and what are the...
Russia’s War in Ukraine Understanding the conflict four years on. Here’s the scenario of a war game played Monday by a group of current members of...
When President Donald Trump delivered his television tirade Thursday night about “shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure” and a...
Three words of advice for President Donald Trump as he tries to extricate himself from the mess of the Iran war: Just stop talking. Let America’s...
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In 1983, I wrote an article for Foreign Affairs magazine with the comically naive title, “How to Rebuild Lebanon.” The task seemed obvious: The...
Listening to U.S. and Arab negotiators recount inside details of their long, zigzag bargaining with Iran over the past five months, I have the sense...
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“The Acting Director of Political Retribution.” Sadly, that might be the best shorthand title for the official chosen Tuesday to oversee the...