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American Jihad

Bruce Hoffman | Apr 20, 2010
Al-Qaeda has accomplished the unthinkable: establishing an embryonic recruitment, radicalization and operational capacity on our shores. Our current strategy risks another 9/11.

A Subversive on a Hill

Lawrence Freedman | May 07, 2009
With America mired in two wars and our economy in shambles, the chorus of declinists has returned. But the United States will endure because it is an elastic power.

Ambushed on the Potomac

Richard Perle | Jan 21, 2009
One of America’s best-known neoconservatives gives his take on what went wrong over the past eight years, the role of the State Department in hijacking Bush’s foreign policy and why 50 million conspiracy theorists have it wrong.

The Legend of a Democracy Promoter

Amy Zegart | Sep 16, 2008
George W. Bush will not be judged kindly by history. But make no mistake: his freedom agenda will endure in the next administration and beyond.

Foreign Policy, Meet the People

Robert Y. Shapiro
Yaeli Bloch-Elkon
| Sep 02, 2008
Partisanship used to stop at the water’s edge. But times have changed; the U.S. electorate is now deeply divided—and not just on domestic-policy prescriptions. Facing a rift among the masses greater than that spawned by either the war in Korea or

McCain's Choice

Derek Chollet
James M. Goldgeier
| Jul 02, 2008
Neoconservatives and realists are battling to set the GOP’s foreign-policy agenda—and the future of American diplomacy hangs in the balance.
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Commentary

Misdiagnosing the Middle East

F. Gregory Gause III | May 26, 2011
Why the neocon-liberal alliance's cure-all for the Arab world will fail.

Bankrupt Empire

Doug Bandow | Apr 19, 2010
Washington’s massive debt will force America to abandon its role as global hegemon.

Brownout

Jacob Heilbrunn | Jan 20, 2010
Scott Brown’s victory is an early warning for Democrats. If Obama focuses on job creation and the deficit, he can save his party from imploding.
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Blogs

George Bush's Unmemorable Memoir

Jacob Heilbrunn | Nov 08, 2010
George W. Bush's book is an inadvertent reminder that you needn't be an interesting leader to be a terrible one.

Nostalgia for George W. Bush

Jacob Heilbrunn | Oct 20, 2010
George W. Bush is following an American tradition of formerly vilified presidents who resurrect their reputations after they leave office.

David Addington's Return to Power

Jacob Heilbrunn | Aug 30, 2010
Dick Cheney's legal counsel and the mind behind the war on terror emerges from the shadows.

Books & Reviews

Woodrow Wilson's War

Michael C. Desch | Jan 21, 2009
George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq was more consistent with the American tradition than many of his critics claimed, and some of his erstwhile supporters wished. The Wilsonians try to distance themselves from Bush, but they wind  up demonstr

The Tao of the Arab Center

Paul R. Pillar | Oct 30, 2008
The Bush administration may have gotten a lot wrong, but there is still hope for America’s policy in the Middle East. Three books shed some light on how the United States can get over Iraq.

Reflections from the Right

Jacob Heilbrunn | Oct 30, 2008
The conservative movement is cracking up—just look at three memoirs of former administration officials. These new books may engage in justification and self-aggrandizement, but they do prescribe salves for fixing the conservative experiment.
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