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A Foreign Policy Worse Than Regime Change

February 10, 2026

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How to Understand Trump’s Obsession With Greenland

January 19, 2026

An illustration of Trump next to a map of Greenland

What Explains Trump’s Aggression Toward Venezuela? Who Knows.

December 10, 2025

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The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

November 2025 Issue

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How American Power Should Be Deployed

August 1, 2025

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A Crisis Is No Time for Amateurs

May 7, 2025

Photo of Marco Rubio

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Mike Waltz Joins an Unhappy Fraternity

David A. Graham

May 1, 2025

A color photograph of Michael Waltz crossing a driveway on the White House grounds.

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Inside the Fight Over Trump’s Foreign Policy

April 23, 2025

Donald Trump sits at a table next to Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio

The Simple Explanation for Why Trump Turned Against Ukraine

March 5, 2025

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Incompetence Leavened With Malignity

February 19, 2025

Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, and Michael Waltz

Trump Is Right That Pax Americana Is Over

Charles A. Kupchan

January 10, 2025

Donald trump's feet stepping on a broken hand-drawn globe with fragments on the ground

This Time, Bob Woodward Gets It Right

October 11, 2024

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What Tensions in the Middle East Could Mean for Harris and Trump

October 5, 2024

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A Famous Mike Tyson Quote Is the Key to Biden’s Foreign Policy

September 9, 2021

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So Much for a ‘Foreign Policy for the Middle Class’

August 17, 2021

Afghan citizens climbing atop a plane at Kabul airport.

The Blob Meets the Heartland

William J. Burns

September 24, 2020

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Foreign Policy Isn't Just Up To Trump

Deborah Pearlstein

November 23, 2019

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Buttigieg Looks to Truman, Not Obama, on Foreign Policy

June 11, 2019

The Open Mind

J. Robert Oppenheimer

February 1949 Issue

A black-and-white photograph of J. Robert Oppenheimer testifying before the Senate Military Affairs Committee in 1945.