For much of the 20th century, the United States has toggled between two foreign policy impulses: to actively insert itself in the affairs of the world or to hang back and focus on its own domestic issues.
With each passing day, the enemy becomes increasingly unbearable for both sides. Given the brutality of this war—a brutality that was inherent in the invasion from the beginning—this is not surprising.
When our society loses trust with each other and with the government, violence goes up and political violence and murder rates are related as well.
The decision to withdraw from Afghanistan was a strategic imperative delivered with a frightening degree of incompetence, lack of preparation, and confusion.
The decision to withdraw from Afghanistan was a strategic imperative delivered with a frightening degree of incompetence, lack of preparation, and confusion.

Brussels is scrambling to find a solution before Prishtina implements its controversial license plate decision.

Paul Haenle will sit down with Anja Manuel to examine ongoing challenges to the global rules-based order. This discussion is the second of Carnegie China's 2022 Distinguished Speakers Series and will also be recorded and published as a China in the World podcast.
The direction in which Washington seems to be heading is on one level a continuation of U.S. global primacy. But on another level, it’s something qualitatively different, where the United States faces real risks of a great-power conflict for the perpetual future.
As the United States descends into intense rivalry with China and Russia, progressives can no longer treat great-power competition as a secondary concern. They need to decide where they stand, or else great-power competition will decide for them.
To Europeans now awake to the danger of Russian aggression, it may seem tempting to double-down on American leadership. The transatlantic alliance has been around as long as most people alive today can remember and is revitalizing itself in its support for Ukraine.