List of United States articles
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Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh carries yard signs into her campaign office in Chicago. The Gen Z Candidate Calling for a ‘Humane Foreign Policy’
In a crowded Illinois congressional race, 26-year-old Kat Abughazaleh is the only contender focusing on the wider world.
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U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak in the Rose Garden. A Bull in the China Policy Shop
The “move fast and break things” approach of Trump’s second term has undermined some of his administration’s own China goals.
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United States President Donald Trump, accompanied by his UAE counterpart Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, gestures with a clenched fist in Abu Dhabi on May 16. Why the U.S. Should Build Data Centers in Dubai and Riyadh
Turning away partners with a clear preference for American AI infrastructure creates a vacuum that China will fill.
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United States Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Republican from South Dakota, walks from his office to the Senate floor at the Capitol in Washington on June 30. Senate Republicans Just Undermined Trump’s Energy Dominance Agenda
Their version of the budget bill misses that every energy supply chain today is global.
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A general view of a rare-earth refinery north of the Inner Mongolian city of Baotou on Aug. 20, 2012. How Rare Earths Became China’s Top Trade Weapon
Washington wasn’t always so vulnerable to Beijing’s chokehold.
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U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski speaks with U.S. President Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office on Jan. 21, 1977. Why Zbig Still Matters
Biographer Edward Luce on the life and legacy of former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.
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Australian and American flags on the table during a meeting between Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison and then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon on September 22, 2021. Australia Can’t Have Its Geopolitics Both Ways
Trump forces a reckoning with China on a key Indo-Pacific ally.
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An illustration shows a hand holding up a head-shaped hourglass in a Hamlet-esque pose. Inside the hourglass are sands enveloping the statue of liberty and other monuments. The End of Modernity
A crisis is unfolding before our eyes—and also in our heads.
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An illustration depicts historical moments from the past in the curtains of the Oval Office: Julius Caesar, the Cultural Revolution in China, and three American presidents. The room shows an empty chair at the Resolute Desk and a presidential seal on the rug. Why Compare the Present to the Past?
Thinking via historical analogy has become the preferred way to confront our anxieties.
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People use their phones to take a photo of the empty space on a wall of portraits. How Trump Will Be Remembered
No other president has made his time in office so nakedly about himself and his legacy.
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A woodcut style illustration depicts Donald Trump as Julius Caesar An American Caesar
Comparing two leaders, two millennia apart.
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An illustration shows a Nazi-uniformed hand holding a fountain pen that breaks the globe into spheres of influence. How a Nazi Jurist Captured Imaginations on the U.S. Left and Right
It’s Carl Schmitt’s world, and we’re all just living in it.
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An illustration shows Chairman Mao being driven in a car past a sea of red flags. In the foreground is Donald Trump in a similar pose driven in a golf cart. Is This an American Cultural Revolution?
Liberal critics charge Trump with creating a cult of personality not unlike Mao Zedong’s.
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A woodcut style illustration shows a George Washington's face low down on a dollar bill rolling his eyes. How Low Can the Dollar Go?
It took a decade for the U.S. economy to recover from Nixon. This time could be worse.
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An illustration depicts a lectern with a presidential eagle seal on it. Leaves fall off a branc in one of the eagle's talons. A Trump-like figure looms above. The Human Rights Presidency
Jimmy Carter made foreign policy feel moral again, but that era might be over.
