Ideas

China is waging cognitive warfare. Fighting back starts by defining it.

The US and its allies need a framework for this new domain of conflict: formal, explicit specifications for its concepts and entities.

Threats

The US just lowered its defenses against authoritarian propaganda, experts say

Gutting the U.S. Agency for Global Media reduces the country's ability to fight off influence campaigns at home and promote freedom abroad.

Ideas

By halting Ukraine aid, Trump courts personal defeat

There’s still time to avoid emboldening America’s enemies—and a humiliation that dwarfs his predecessor’s Afghanistan withdrawal.

Ideas

After Oval Office disaster, Europe emerges as Ukraine’s best hope

Friday’s fiery Trump-Zelenskyy meeting sets up hard choices across the Atlantic.