China Through the Eyes of its Most Famous Dissident

by Anne Kim October 22, 2025October 6, 2026

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Johnson discusses the life of Liu Xiaobo, China’s sole laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Clean Energy Allergy: In August, the Trump Administration halted work on a nearly completed $4 Billion Wind Farm off the coast of Rhode Island. Here, a Wind Farm is seen on August 25, 2025 in Abescon, New Jersey.

Economy

Trump’s Opposition to Clean Energy Is Costing You Money

by Laura Gillam October 15, 2025October 14, 2025

By not spending monies appropriated for Biden-era energy bills, the president is helping China win the global race for clean and affordable energy technologies.

Is this an industrial policy? Not really as the president cuts ad hoc deals to promote manufacturing, and his own power. Here, the president speaks at the U.S. Steel Mon Valley Works-Irvin plant, Friday, May 30, 2025, in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.

Economy

Industrial Policy, Trump Style

by James Hassett October 14, 2025October 11, 2025

The president’s parade of ad hoc deals with companies benefits his political allies and punishes enemies, but doesn’t enhance national greatness.

Trump is destroying the American battery industry. A Georgia battery plant illustrates the problem.

Economy

How Trump’s Policies Crush the American Battery Boom

by James Hassett July 22, 2025October 6, 2025

Biden policies put the U.S. in a strong position, but Trump is destroying the American battery industry and good American jobs.

War in the Mideast

Will Trump’s Strikes on Iran Unleash a Global Arms Race?

by Matthew Cooper June 24, 2025June 24, 2025

Since World War II, nonproliferation efforts have limited the number of countries with nuclear weapons. That may be about to change.

Politics

Donald Trump Is Raising Your Taxes, and Republicans Won’t Stop Him

by Bill Scher April 11, 2025April 11, 2025

The President’s partial tariff retreat still leaves his biggest import taxes in place, and the Congressional Republican tax cut plans won’t offset them.

Politics

America Needs Social Media Sovereignty

by Roy Temple February 27, 2025February 27, 2025

America’s digital borders are wide open. And it’s Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk’s fault.

Magazine

America Is Already Great Again

by Wesley K. Clark June 23, 2024June 24, 2024

Don’t let doomsayers like Donald Trump fool you. On every meaningful metric of national strength, the United States under Joe Biden is a rising power—and we have the economic means and necessary alliances to meet our gravest challenges.