The U.S. position in Asia is good. Keeping it that way won’t be easy.

U.S. policy toward Turkey must navigate a compound dislocation.

We now inhabit a populist democracy, as Obama the candidate understood well.

Randolph Bourne’s warnings of how war feeds the state reverberate still.

Charting a Goldwater-Nichols-scale reform for the U.S. interagency process.

Memo to the National Security Advisor: Learn from your predecessors.

Should we shut down the World Bank: Yes, it’s been marginal at best and a bust all along at worst.

Mere enthusiasm does not a successful government make.

New tools to fight WMD proliferation need to be institutionalized, not abandoned.

Those who see America’s nadir in the current economic crisis are shortsighted.