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Revisionism
Don’t Rehabilitate Obama on Russia

President Trump’s boasts about him being tougher on Russia than his predecessor may ring hollow—but they’re true.

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Grand Strategy
Beyond the Blobbers

The chatter that passes for foreign policy debate these days is not happening at the level of grand strategy, and fails to look broadly at the circumstances the United States finds itself in.

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Disinformation All the Way Down

Reality is no longer what you think it is.

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Policing the Web
Counting Cybercrimes

It’s a vicious cycle: Businesses underreport cybercrimes, which means that law enforcement doesn’t have the information it needs to solve or deter them. Can we escape it?

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Department of Bad Ideas
The True Cost of Trump’s Military Parade

The President’s proposed parade isn’t just a wasteful paean to tin-pot despotism. It constitutes a broader threat to U.S. civil-military relations.

Public Diplomacy for the 21st Century
How to Talk with Russia

Americans once knew how to effectively communicate with Russian audiences, and they in turn wanted to engage with Western voices. What went wrong, and how can we fix it?

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Democracy in South Africa
Farewell, Jacob Zuma

Thank the ANC, not South Africa’s institutions, for finally forcing out a failed President.

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Film & Politics
Black Panther: An Afrocentric Ethical Fable

Marvel’s latest blockbuster serves the classic function of myth—to provide a poetic account of the political ethics of a community.

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A Lesson from Hungary
The Economic Origins of Populist Support

In both Hungary and the United States, the primary factor driving a resurgence in populism is not racism: it’s the economy, stupid.

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Historical Anniversaries
1968 Plus 50 Years: The Irony of History

With half a century of hindsight, 1968 appears less a global turning point than an example of one of history’s signal features—irony.

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