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Rice, Power and Obama's Vindictiveness

The latest personnel move is a deliberate slap at Republicans.

Providing for the Common Defense

The House Armed Services chair on the challenges facing Congress and the United States.

Commitment Can Fix U.S. Politics

The rising generation of veterans might be able to restore order in Washington.

Essays

Israel's Fraying Image

There are growing signs of a divergence in American-Israeli relations and interests. 

Congressional Abdication

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

Morality Play Instead of Policy

International trends have become less favorable to the United States. This national vacation from serious foreign-policy analysis in the political arena is both ill timed and dangerous.

The Perpetual Border Battle

Though some pundits insist illegal immigration is fading as a national problem, careful study of the border situation suggests otherwise. The challenge remains serious, and large enforcement gaps persist.

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.

Triumph of the New Wilsonism

No national interest was cited as a rationale for America's Libya campaign; the action was justified solely on humanitarian grounds. This marks a fundamental break with past U.S. policy prescriptions for such military interventions.

Blogs

The Pendulum of Opinion on Security and Privacy

The public is very fickle about government intrusion.

An Excellent Statement on Terrorism

Obama's drones and detention speech was a step forward for how the U.S. thinks about its national security.

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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June 19, 2013