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The GOP faces a choice about how to move forward.
Trump's negotiations and German elections may augur the end of collective security as we've known it.
Forget boots on the ground. Now we’ll have Americans “on the land.”
“I cannot ignore Congress’ detailed framework for refugee admissions and the limits it placed on the president’s ability to suspend the same,” said Judge Jamal Whitehead.
The law is wasteful and protectionist. Now, a new lawsuit argues that it is unconstitutional too.
If Trump wants to encourage domestic investment, his antitrust appointees should ditch their Big Tech prejudice.
Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy's book tells the stories of soldiers, stalkers, and squatters in Chernobyl during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Plus: A listener asks the editors whether it makes sense for a country to have a sovereign wealth fund.
The Trump administration’s math on Middle Eastern energy supplies just doesn’t add up.
It's a terrible decision for both moral and pragmatic reasons.
What the Russian-born author would have thought of Russia's war in Ukraine
The spread of Ultimate Frisbee testifies to a kind of Western soft power in the Middle East, one far friendlier than bombs or bullets.
If Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is serious about reducing military spending, he will need to embrace a narrower understanding of national security.
Plus: Border update, a shift in U.S. policy on Taiwan (Beijing is pissed), and more...
While the U.S. publicly insisted on an “open door” policy, Zelenskyy says he was privately told that Ukraine couldn’t join NATO.
The reported order from Britain's Home Office is further proof that governments pose a greater privacy risk than corporations.
The U.S. is no longer willing to subsidize prosperous countries that won’t defend themselves.
The Munich Security Conference was supposed to be a foreign policy forum. Instead, the vice president lectured Europeans about democracy.
Subsidizing American farmers is not a valid justification for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Is the fraud in the room with us right now? Yes.
The push for Russian-Ukrainian peace is about more than Ukraine.
The pretend department’s downgraded mission reflects the gap between Trump’s promise of "smaller government" and the reality of what can be achieved without new legislation.
And it's not about "fairness." Quite the opposite, actually.
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The agency's low points, from working with child sex abusers to enabling drug trafficking
Antiwar.com's Scott Horton and The Free Press's Eli Lake debate U.S. foreign policy and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Republicans are betting trillions on the hope that the economy will grow fast enough to cover their deficit spree.
Eliminating tariff exemptions will increase import delivery times and make direct-to-consumer goods more expensive.
It’s hard to tell how serious his threats are—and maybe that’s by design.
Eliminating the deficit requires cutting the biggest spending—defense, Medicare, Social Security. So far, Trump says he won't touch those.
The president says he wants peace in the Middle East. But his plans are all over the place.
After promising to stop the flow of drugs during his first term, the president blames foreign officials for his failure.
How the U.S. military busts its budget on wasteful, careless, and unnecessary "self-licking ice cream cones."
Retaking the canal won’t protect national security.
Reviving the Monroe Doctrine and 19th century Republican adventurism is not a shortcut to peace.
The Trump administration made an extreme claim about wasteful foreign aid that just wasn't true.
DeepSeek made a more efficient product that the rules wouldn't hinder.
Trump wants Arab countries to take in Gaza’s population. The Biden administration already tried, and failed, to bribe and cajole Egypt into doing so.
President Donald Trump doubled down on both domestic deregulation and protectionism in his speech to the World Economic Forum.
Trump wants to negotiate instead of bombing Iran. Jilted war hawks are blaming his advisers.
Plus: Israel's ceasefire(s), Chinese AI arms race, Waymo vandalism, and more...
But at least he restored respect for a tariff-loving predecessor by renaming a mountain.
A new crop of restrictive laws faces a friendly reception in the courts but ongoing public resistance.
American tariffs will increase the price of final and intermediate goods, hurting our own consumers and domestic manufacturers.
But that doesn't mean he's embracing the doves.
Domestic deregulation will decrease the cost of living. Trade barriers will do the opposite.
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