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Congress

When Kerry Stormed D.C.

John Kerry was just five years out of Yale when he testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and became an instant celebrity.

Congressional Abdication

Congress has been abandoning its traditional role in foreign policy to the executive branch.

Leading Blindly across a Minefield

The international system is at a transformative moment. Yet President Obama has failed to set a direction for America.

America's Civic Deadlock and the Politics of Crisis

Congress is paralyzed. National debt is skyrocketing. America’s political consensus can no longer address the country’s most basic problems. We must resolve the question of what will replace it.

Deepwater Horizon

The Macondo oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico is about to spur a bureaucratic overreaction that will ruin America's chance at becoming an energy exporter.

Conservative Nation

Declarations of conservatism's demise after the 2008 election were greatly exaggerated. As the opposition, American conservatives are in their element—can they draw upon their intellectual tradition to solve what ails America?

Commentary

Foggy Bottom Dualist

Former State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland sees the world black, white, and free of complexity.

Rational and Reckless Alliances

It makes sense for Europe to lean on America for protection. East Asia is a different story.

Too Big To Free Ride

The government awards the largest banks all sorts of privileges, working against the public interest.

Blogs

America's Flawed and Fragile Democracy

The 2012 election saw several undemocratic trends emerge.

Let Sequestration Happen

The most dramatic option for cutting defense spending also may be the only viable one.

The Limitless Global War

The myth of a coherent "Al Qaeda" is being used to justify illegal, unconstitutional warfare.

Books & Reviews

The Critique of Pure Kagan

Robert Kagan has issued a cri de coeur urging Americans to reject calls for reduced U.S. military spending, curtailments in the country’s global commitments and restraint on its interventionist impulses. But his prescriptions are shortsighted.

Beinart's Quest to Save Zionism

How can an Israeli PM mobilize U.S. politicians against a U.S. president committed to Israeli interests? Beinart's provocative answer: U.S. Jewish leaders commandeered Jewish organizations and turned them into agencies for Likud interests.

Death by Irrelevance

Rockefeller, Lindsay, Scranton—just three of the “moderates” who failed to keep the GOP from the clutches of Goldwater and Nixon. Geoffrey Kabaservice laments their defeat with a wistfulness that obscures from him their true frustration.

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May 21, 2013