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February 20, 2026
Marco Rubio’s Munich Speech Is More Dangerous Than You Think
What the U.S. secretary of state laid bare about the Trump worldview.
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February 13, 2026
The Demise of the Washington Post Is a Global Problem
What Jeff Bezos’s actions signal to news outlets around the world.
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January 23, 2026
The Soviet Lessons for Trump’s Greenland Gambit
A 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia offers a key to understanding how Trump’s adventurism plays out.
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January 13, 2026
Trump’s Fantastical Geopolitics
The White House’s aggressive posture is already pushing other countries to seek strength in numbers.
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January 5, 2026
The Political Incoherence of Trump’s Venezuela Gambit
The greatest beneficiaries of his actions may be America’s biggest rivals.
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December 18, 2025
Benin’s Failed Coup Reveals Deepening Fault Lines in Africa
The foiled putsch placed the continent’s geopolitics under a magnifying glass.
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December 16, 2025
Mahmood Mamdani’s Uganda
Howard W. French
In his new book Slow Poison, the accomplished anthropologist revisits the Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni years.
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December 11, 2025
Trump’s National Security Strategy Is a Blueprint for the Demise of the West
The White House’s agenda may not be coherent, but it is deeply dangerous.
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December 2, 2025
Trump’s Favorite Role? Foreign-Policy Czar.
In diplomacy, the U.S. president always seems to follow his own transactional view of human affairs.
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