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April 9, 2026
Trump’s Recipe for Accelerated U.S. Decline
Erratic militarism combined with increased defense spending would only bring long-term decay.
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April 3, 2026
Why Trump’s Speech Was So Worrying
Certain outcomes to the U.S. war in Iran now seem more likely than ever.
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March 20, 2026
Why U.S. Victory in Iran Would Be Bad for Washington—and the World
The possibility of Trump imposing his personal whims on another nation is even more frightening than U.S. failure.
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March 12, 2026
Trump’s Last-Gasp Foreign Policy
Ill-considered overreach in Iran and elsewhere signals imminent decline.
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March 5, 2026
The Reductive Rhetoric of the Iran War
Americans across the political spectrum need to stop talking about Tehran in cliches.
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February 26, 2026
Why Is America So Obsessed With Cuba?
Trump’s rhetoric is reviving old U.S. fantasies about the island.
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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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