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General McChrystal and Academic Freedom

How to foster free, unbiased discourse in the classroom and beyond.

535 Secretaries of State

Congress running foreign policy. The president usurping war powers. This is not what the Founding Fathers intended.

The Soft Power of Equal Opportunity

America, like China, will suffer from the inequality fostered by nepotism and cronyism. 

Spinning Up For Baghdad

As P5+1 negotations with Iran approach, the contingent counting on their failure grows louder.

Euro 2012 and the Price of Repression

The Ukranian president's ruthless tactics are isolating what should be a leading Eastern European nation.

Why Americans Are Less Hawkish than Their Leaders

The origins and consequences of the public-elite opinion gap on foreign policy.

Washington Post Defines Worst Fears Down

Giving undue credit to terrorists such as Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri only furthers their cause.

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May 26, 2012