Can a trade pact with Europe help America tame China?
foreign policy
Posted inBooks, Magazine, September/October 2013
Brothers in Armchairs
For Allen and John Foster Dulles, regime change was an extension of the family business.
Posted inJuly/August 2013, Magazine, Politics
The Education of Rand Paul
How is a first-term senator becoming a force in his party on foreign policy? Because in today’s GOP, he’s what passes for moderate.
Posted inMagazine, May/June 2013, Politics
Speech Therapy
When Barack Obama left to visit Israel in March, expectations could hardly have been lower. He had a relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that was widely described as “frosty.” The two had feuded over everything from Obama’s insistence, early in his first term, that Israel freeze settlement building to Netanyahu’s repeated threat to bomb […]
Posted inBooks, Government, January/February 2013, Magazine
COIN Operated
In Iraq and Afghanistan, General David Petraeus applied all the lessons learned in Vietnam—except for the one that mattered most.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, November/December 2012
Brass Backwards
Thomas Ricks explains the declining competence of America’s senior military commanders.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2012
Drone On
It’s probably a matter of when, not if, al-Qaeda in Yemen successfully strikes the U.S. Yet the drone attacks currently keeping the organization at bay are also helping recruit more terrorists. Can you say “no-win situation”?
Posted inBooks, Government, July/August 2012, Magazine
Young Guns
Obama’s surprisingly strong national security record owes much to a group of youthful aides few Americans have heard of.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, May/June 2012, Politics
Peaced Out
Peter Beinart warns that American Jews must refocus on the democratic and humanitarian principles of Zionism before Israel becomes simply another despotic Middle Eastern state.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April 2012
We Can Live with a Nuclear Iran
Fears of a bomb in Tehran’s hands are overhyped, and a war to prevent it would be a disaster.
