Foreign Policy

Biden’s Foreign Policy Team Can’t Handle New Threats With Old Strategies

Biden’s Foreign Policy Team Can’t Handle New Threats With Old Strategies Biden’s Foreign Policy Team Can’t Handle New Threats With Old Strategies

How can the United States focus on new threats while sustaining endless wars and obsolete postures?

Mar 16, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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Cold War Nostalgia Fuels a Dangerous New Anti-China Consensus Cold War Nostalgia Fuels a Dangerous New Anti-China Consensus

It is folly to use China as a bogeyman to help unite America and revive NATO.

Mar 15, 2021 / Jeet Heer

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Biden’s Foreign Policy Is Clinging to an Irrelevant Past Biden’s Foreign Policy Is Clinging to an Irrelevant Past

It’s past time to give the narratives of the 20th century a decent burial. Doing so may be a precondition for our very survival.

Mar 12, 2021 / Andrew J. Bacevich

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The Rise of the East Will Not End the Empire of the West The Rise of the East Will Not End the Empire of the West

China has no interest in destroying the system on which its success was built.

Mar 12, 2021 / Kehinde Andrews

Parenting in Exile From Egypt: The Choices I Made for My Daughters

Parenting in Exile From Egypt: The Choices I Made for My Daughters Parenting in Exile From Egypt: The Choices I Made for My Daughters

Even though I know what the dictatorship would do to me if I returned to Egypt, I am consumed with guilt for abandoning my family.

Mar 11, 2021 / Muhammad Kamal

Will the Democrats Renew Their Membership in the War Party?

Will the Democrats Renew Their Membership in the War Party? Will the Democrats Renew Their Membership in the War Party?

Regardless of which party is in power, US foreign policy since 9/11 has meant a unified government under the masters of war.

Mar 11, 2021 / Column / David Bromwich

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Withdrawing US Troops From Afghanistan Is Only a Start. We Have to End the Air War Too. Withdrawing US Troops From Afghanistan Is Only a Start. We Have to End the Air War Too.

The war is a failure. Continuing to wage it will only result in further devastation.

Mar 5, 2021 / Phyllis Bennis

Marching Through Georgia

Marching Through Georgia Marching Through Georgia

Schlapptrap. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of  March 1.  

Mar 5, 2021

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Trump Made His ‘American Carnage’ Fever Dream True Trump Made His ‘American Carnage’ Fever Dream True

In the US, 500,000 people are dead, but the toll is higher and Covid is but one measure of public health.

Mar 3, 2021 / Matt Nelson

Biden Ran on Ending Forever Wars. He’s Already Undermining That Promise.

Biden Ran on Ending Forever Wars. He’s Already Undermining That Promise. Biden Ran on Ending Forever Wars. He’s Already Undermining That Promise.

The argument that the strikes in Syria are a “defensive” measure mocks the reality of our presence there.

Mar 2, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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