Essays
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The Morning After
What Just Happened?

How is it that an electorate that twice elected Barack Obama can turn on its boot heels and elect someone like Donald Trump?

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vetocracy
Too Much Law and Too Little Infrastructure

The United States lags behind other Western countries in infrastructure building because we have a system ruled by vetoes.

A Conversation with Aleksander Nevzorov:
“Putin Is Completely Russia’s Puppet”

After the election, is reengagement with Russia possible while Putin is in power?

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Pivot to Asia
Who Lost the Philippines?

In today’s global economy, money speaks louder than morals. The next U.S. administration must factor that into its Asia policy.

Parallels
Trump Before Trump

What a nineteenth century poet-turned-politician can warn us about the consequences of the 2016 elections.

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The Real Deal
Assuming the Position

Volume Two of the Pumphrett Papers.

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Crackdown in Turkey
Erdogan Ups the Ante

Erdogan’s authoritarian surge has now kicked into overdrive with the arrests of opposition members of parliament.

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2016 And Beyond
The Waning of American Primacy

President Obama’s successor may find that reversing American foreign policy decline will take more than a mere act of will.

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Cyber Insecurity
Inside the Surkov Leaks—and the Surkov “Fakes”

Hacked emails of a top Putin aide show Moscow’s role in the Ukraine conflict, but an apparent forgery has also muddied the waters.

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2016
An American in Berlin

The Clinton-Trump battle puts an American expat in the hot seat, and has him dreaming of how the United States could be more like Europe.

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