Cher Vladimir
Putin, the European

Sitting pretty as he heads into summer, Russia’s President is ready to capitalize on any new Transatlantic rifts.

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China Trade Fight
Time to Move the American ICT Supply Chain Out of China

The Trump Administration’s trade strategy needs to focus on the threat posed by China’s activities in the information and communication technology arena.

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The Middle Kingdom
All Under Heaven?

Ge Zhaoguang’s history offers subtle warnings of the dangers of Chinese triumphalism.

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Decommissioning History
Remembering the Past in Northern Ireland

Twenty years after the Good Friday Agreement, the guns are off the street, but history and memory continue to be weaponized.

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Identity Politics
Getting Tribes: A Corrective

What Americans misunderstand about tribal cultures, and how it hurts U.S. foreign policy.

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The Middle East
Has the Assad Regime “Won” Syria’s Civil War?

Not only is Syria’s civil war far from over, but the Assad regime’s victories over rebel forces have sparked a series of “wars after the war” that could undermine its recent gains—and create opportunities for the United States.

Capitalism—Past and Future
Beyond the Factory

The factory embodies a vision of technology and society that holds utopian promise but breeds dystopian disenchantment.

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Policing the Police
Can Deterrence Theory Explain the Stephon Clark Shooting?

The crisis in American policing isn’t because of a “few bad apples.” It’s due to decades of bad public policy.

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Happy Days?
The Fifties Were Awful, But Not the Way You Think

The 1950s weren’t an age of conservative bourgeois culture. They were the destructor of that culture.

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Campaign Finance
Donald Trump, John Edwards, and the Mistress Loophole

Maybe Rudy Giuliani knows what he’s doing after all.

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