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Image: Trump in New Hampshire, 2015. Photo by Michael Vadon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Trump's Politically Incorrect Foreign Policy Speech

Standing athwart the conventional wisdom.

Robert W. Merry

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September-October 2016
The Dark Side of the American Revolution
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John Trumbull’s The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton. Wikimedia Commons/Public domain

The Dark Side of the American Revolution

Alan Taylor demolishes the fiction of happy warriors united in a righteous cause against ruthless overlords.

Jordan Michael Smith

What Hillary and Trump Should Learn from Ike and George Washington

These warrior-presidents shunned war and realized that America's greatest weapon is its economy.

Daniel L. Davis
Jill Stein at the Green Party Presidential Candidate Town Hall in Mesa, Arizona. Flickr/Gage Skidmore

Don't Count Jill Stein Out

She’s taken the Greens in a more serious direction—and could pull Hillary to the left.

Camilo Gómez
Donald Trump supporters in Phoenix, Arizona. Flickr/Gage Skidmore

Trump Exposes Phony Republicans' True Colors

Are mealy-mouthed establishment Republicans the new Democrats?

Ying Ma
Winston Churchill. Wikimedia Commons/Public domain

Brexit Was Decades In the Making

The UK has never wished to be part of the European project.

Daniel P. Vajdich
A welcoming ceremony for USS Shiloh’s arrival in Zhanjiang, China. Flickr/U.S. 7th Fleet

America and China Are Locked in Battle for Control of the South China Sea

The future of the global maritime commons and the Asian balance of power is at stake.

Hunter Marston

The Skeptics

  • What Hillary and Trump Should Learn from Ike and George Washington

  • Donald Trump vs. the 'Blob'

  • Western Whining Won't Stop North Korea's Nukes

  • Trump and Obama: On Foreign Policy, Two Peas in a Pod

  • Realism's Gaping Blind Spots—And How to Fix Them

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  • America's F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Face Another Big Test

  • US Army's New Super Weapon: Merge a Machine Gun with a Rocket Launcher

  • Report Finds These Gun Owners Are Least Likely Criminals

  • The Outdated Arguments Against National Missile Defense That Could Get Us All Killed

Paul Pillar

  • The Woulda Coulda Shoulda School of Foreign Policy Analysis

  • Legitimizing Extremism

  • The Exceptional But Fragile American Democracy

  • The Itch to Escalate the Syrian Civil War

How Neocons Are Still Winning in 2016

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America's F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Face Another Big Test

Dave Majumdar

US Army's New Super Weapon: Merge a Machine Gun with a Rocket Launcher

Kris Osborn

The Woulda Coulda Shoulda School of Foreign Policy Analysis

Paul R. Pillar

Report Finds These Gun Owners Are Least Likely Criminals

Fred Lucas

The Outdated Arguments Against National Missile Defense That Could Get Us All Killed

Loren B. Thompson

Neocons to Trump Voters: Drop Dead!

What's splitting the Republican Party? Neoconservatives don't care, they'd rather just sneer.

Matt Purple

Beware the Tyranny Trap

Abraham Lincoln warned of the fine line between grand political ambition and tyranny.

Steven B. Smith

The Atlantic Pivot

Brexit or not, Europe remains an indispensable strategic asset for the United States.

Simon Serfaty

Obama’s Nuclear Test Moratorium Is Common Sense

A UN Security Council move against nuclear-weapons testing would serve American interests.

Daryl Kimball

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