Extreme Weather Will Upend U.S.-China Competition
The cost of falling behind on climate adaptation.
Europe Goes Its Own Way
Drifting from America, the continent Is rearming and reordering itself.
Who Is Winning Africa’s Drone Wars?
Ukraine isn’t the only battlefield shaping autonomous warfare.
How to Survive the AI Shock
A policy playbook to avert political crisis.
The Coming Quantum National Security Crisis
China and Russia are harvesting encrypted secrets—and getting closer to cracking them.
NATO’s Permanent Crisis
The alliance has survived 80 years of disagreement—and it will survive again.
The Strange Defeat of Nuclear Deterrence
And the coming crisis in strategic stability.
The Quiet Rise of the Plastics Crisis
How to counter an insidious global threat.
Why “China First” Will Fail
The limits and lessons of a transactional foreign policy.
The Afghanistan Reckoning
Forever wars and the costs of collective forgetting.
The Mirage of China’s Military Edge
Panic is misguided—and counterproductive.
When Workers Lose to AI
How the U.S. government can soften the blow of automation.
China Could Win Taiwan Without Fighting
The cost of Trump’s equivocation.
How France Falls to the Far Right
The growing odds and seismic consequences of a Le Pen-Bardella victory.
The Real Problem With Global Trade
How China’s currency manipulation is warping the world economy.
China Is Pulling Up the Ladder Behind It
How Beijing’s export strategy will keep poor countries poor.
The False Promise of U.S.-China Stability
Washington will come to regret its stalemate with Beijing.
The Fault Lines in China’s Power
America must build—and use—leverage against Beijing.
Silicon Valley’s Bad Bet on the Gulf
Why the AI build-out was doomed from the start.
The End of the Open Internet
Europe lost the plot on online speech.
New Prime Minister, Same Problem
Why the consequences of Brexit can no longer be avoided.
When a Cease-Fire Is Really a Stalemate
Equilibrium with Iran is the best America can do.
Losing the War of the Future
How new technologies threaten America’s military advantage.
Heartland vs. Rimland
The battle lines in the war for the next global order.
The Middle East Power Paradox
How the Iran war will transform America’s military role.
The Long Shadow of the Iran War
Trump’s most consequential foreign policy mistake.
Iran Won the War but May Lose the Peace
Tehran is poised to overplay its hand.