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What Trump's UN Speech Says About What Comes Next
His General Assembly speech laid out his worldview—and offered some clues about what could lie ahead.
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Moon’s Praise-and-Pressure Plan to Get Trump to Help End Korean War
“You are, indeed, the only person who can solve this problem,” Moon said of Trump—just before he amped up the pressure.
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Two Reasons Not to Build Fort Trump in Today’s Poland
Even as it exacerbated Russian fears, a permanent U.S. force would burnish Warsaw’s dangerous turn.
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The UAE Will Shape the Future of Yemen
As the United Arab Emirates’ bloody war against the Houthis drags on, it’s also playing a key role in the fight against al-Qaeda.
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America Needs a Non-Unipolar Foreign Policy
Trump’s election should remind Congress and policymakers that the U.S. cannot do it all.
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Fort Trump: A Silly Name Masks a Good Idea
A permanent U.S. presence in Poland makes sense for several reasons.
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Build Small Nuclear Reactors for Battlefield Power
Los Alamos engineers are working on a tiny, steel-encased core regulated by physics, not pumps.
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The US-China Trade War is Steering the World into the Unknown
A new Cold War is a possibility — but not the most likely one.
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If Trump’s Message to the Palestinians is 'You Lost, Get Over It,' He Will Fail
Instead of acknowledging the political and national aspirations of the Palestinians, negotiators are focusing on material and economic concerns.
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Moon Brings Korean Peninsula One Step Closer to Peace
As talks with Washington seemed to stall, Seoul created its own path with Pyongyang.
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America's Latest About-Face: Refugee Resettlement
Where past administrations have treated resettlement caps as a goal, Pompeo has set strict limits.
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Cognitive Science Helps Explain How We Blunder Into War
A new book explores how common flaws in human reasoning drew the U.S. into Vietnam — and how tomorrow’s leaders can avoid them.
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ISIS Sees Opportunity as Syria’s Rebellion Falls
Religious extremists will try to inherit the energy of the all-but-defeated rebellion, just as they did in Iraq after the surge.
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Trump Is Repeating Soviet Leaders’ Intel Mistakes
Stalin ignored his spies when their findings contradicted his assumptions. Now the U.S. president is doing the same.
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The World Waits for Putin to Stop Assad. He Won't
As Assad begins an assault on Idlib, the last rebel stronghold, the world has fooled itself into thinking Russia will intervene.
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The Secret to Effective Foreign Aid? Sometimes, It’s Giving Cash
For the first time, USAID compared a traditional intervention to a simple cash transfer.
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America is Losing Power and Influence and Must Adapt, Warns UN Secretary General
The "attraction of American society...is today less clear" says António Guterres, in an exclusive interview.
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Here’s the Real Message Behind Russia’s Big Far-East Wargame
The week-long exercises, which kicked off yesterday, are intended as a show of might. But the country is in no position to wage a real conflict.
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