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Inside the Dysfunction at Rubio's Shrunken National Security Council

02.07.2025 30

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Trump’s Iran Strikes are Upending Our Sense of What Kind of President He Is

23.06.2025 30

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State Department unveils social media screening rules for all student visa applicants

19.06.2025 100

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What’s Israel’s Endgame?

What’s Israel’s Endgame?
14.06.2025 50

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Stop Asking How To Make Putin Walk Away From Ukraine. It's the Wrong Question.

06.06.2025 50

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State begins rolling out expanded student visa vetting — starting with Harvard

31.05.2025 40

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Trump team pauses new student visa interviews as it weighs expanding social media vetting

28.05.2025 550

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The Not-So-Secret Society Whose Members Run State

25.05.2025 20

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Trump’s Trip Lays Bare a Stark Advantage Some Arab States Have Over Israel

15.05.2025 40

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Rubio rising

03.05.2025 20

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Trump’s National Security Team Was Extraordinarily Weak Even Before Waltz’s Ouster

02.05.2025 40

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Has Trump Forgotten His Own Power?

25.04.2025 10

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Trump Looks Willing to Write Off an Entire Continent

18.04.2025 30

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Trump weighs slashing State Department budget by nearly half

15.04.2025 50

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Why Trump May Get Away With His Tariff Trauma

06.04.2025 50

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What Was Insane and What Was Normal About the Signal Group Chat

28.03.2025 80

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Trump aides circulate plan for complete revamp of foreign aid programs

20.03.2025 30

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How Americans May Feel the Slashing of USAID

11.03.2025 10

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America’s Friends Are Not Amused by Trump’s Bravado

05.03.2025 40

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Trump, Vance attack on Zelenskyy angers many. But Russians and (some) Republicans love it.

01.03.2025 100

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State Department officials pushing to release more frozen Ukraine funds

26.02.2025 10

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What Germany’s Election Means for America — and the World

24.02.2025 50

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If Trump Is Set on Toppling Washington Pillars, Here’s a Possible Target

22.02.2025 40

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The Marco Rubio Guide to Survival is Not Working Well

18.02.2025 100

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Putin likely to strike NATO nations next, Ukraine leader warns

17.02.2025 70

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How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGE’s crosshairs

09.02.2025 40

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Trump doubles USAID staff he’s keeping while calling for agency shutdown

08.02.2025 30

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Trump puts USAID staff around the world on leave

05.02.2025 30

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‘It will kill people’: Chaos, confusion after Trump halts US foreign aid

28.01.2025 100

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Marco Rubio Isn't Likely to Last Long as Secretary of State

15.01.2025 80

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He plans to be sworn in as Venezuela’s president, and he hopes both Biden and Trump will help him

Foreign Affairs He plans to be sworn in as Venezuela’s president, and he hopes both Biden and Trump will help him Edmundo González Urrutia is...

08.01.2025 20

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Trump World Has Trust Issues With Qatar

Column | Compass Trump World Has Trust Issues With Qatar The Gulf Arab state’s relationship with the United States is a messy one with fallout from...

27.12.2024 10

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How to Convince a Reluctant Trump to Get Involved in a Liberated Syria

Column | Compass How to Convince a Reluctant Trump to Get Involved in a Liberated Syria The president-elect once derided Syria as “sand and...

09.12.2024 7

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The Trump resistance goes flaccid

14.11.2024 40

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‘We know what is coming’: Federal bureaucrats wrestle with fight-or-flight response to Trump election

10.11.2024 40

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Why the Next President Should Pay Heed to the Republic of Z

Column | Compass Citizens of the imaginary nation have strong U.S. ties, but insurgents want to rid it of American influence. Various...

04.11.2024 20

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Biden raises pressure on Israel as war undercuts Harris

17.10.2024 7

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The Place Where War in the Middle East Will be Won or Lost

12.10.2024 3

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Not Even the Justice League Could Save This UN

28.09.2024 10

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UN officials have a strange feeling about the US presidential race

25.09.2024 100

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The World Can Now See Kamala Harris in its Most Powerful Job

12.09.2024 100

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Venezuela’s Opposition and the US are at a Perilous Point

09.09.2024 40

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The Saudi Crown Prince is Talking About An Assassination. His Own.

15.08.2024 100

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Progressives jostle for nat sec jobs under Harris

13.08.2024 10

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Everyone wants a piece of the swapped prisoners’ story

04.08.2024 10

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US bets on Gaza cease-fire talks as assassinations tilt Mideast toward bigger war

01.08.2024 20

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