Foreign policy communities in open societies love to debate their own relevance. Analysts quarrel over whether their insights inform statecraft or merely decorate it, and governments alternately ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Linda Robinson’s life has been filled with adventures—from interviewing guerrillas in Colombia to embedding with U.S. special forces in ...

For decades, the foreign policy elite in both parties insisted that America’s greatness has more to do with Damascus than Detroit, or Baghdad than Bozeman. It was a bipartisan delusion—driven by ...

In mid-August, the Taliban marked the fourth anniversary of their ascension to power in Afghanistan. During this period, the movement has maintained control over Afghanistan and succeeded in ...

The Trump administration’s new AI Action Plan calls on multiple agencies—including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and the ...