The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on transgender rights will only inflame the culture war—and transpeople may be caught in the crossfire.

The Trump Administration finally offers a rationale for the German troop drawdown. It doesn’t make sense.

Trump’s (unannounced) plan to withdraw 9,500 American troops from Germany may be inevitable. But it’s still an awful idea.

Secretary Mattis and other retired officers have every reason to speak out against the President. Their decision to do so, however, will reverberate well past Trump’s time.

COVID-19 has opened people’s eyes to the China challenge. Effectively meeting it, however, will ask more of us than many imagine.

From 18^th-century Britain to Trump-era America, concerns about geopolitical weakness have gone hand in hand with sexual panic. Rarely do the worst-case scenarios come to pass.

Five experts respond to Svante E. Cornell’s essay, “How Should America Deal with Authoritarian States?” and discuss the legacy of Jeane Kirkpatrick for policymakers today.

In the impeachment hearings, the place of Ukraine in U.S. foreign policy strategy gets lost. It’s important—there remains a strong strategic rationale.

Challenges to America’s role abroad are more likely to lead to a strategic restoration than a realist revolution.