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America’s Turbulent Transition

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    America First, Biden-Style

    Melvyn B. Krauss laments the Trumpian spirit that continues to haunt US foreign policy.
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    Biden’s First Hundred Days

    Richard Haass sees more continuity with the Trump administration's foreign policy than meets the eye.
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    Infrastructure for the Next American Century

    Jonathan Gruber & Simon Johnson applaud the Biden administration's commitment to increase federal funding for basic science.
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    Defending the Free World Again

    Chris Patten urges liberal democracies, and America in particular, to recall the advice offered by George F. Kennan in 1946.
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    Why Would Anyone Want to be President?

    Elizabeth Drew argues that despite a flying start, US President Joe Biden still faces a number of challenges during his term.
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    America’s Return to the World

    Kemal Derviş welcomes the Biden administration’s commitment to bolstering democracy and rebuilding multilateralism.
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    Why Trumpian Populism Failed

    James A. Robinson shows how US democratic institutions prevailed, and why they remain vulnerable to wannabe autocrats.
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    The US Military and the Capitol Mob

    Charles C. Krulak sees radicalism among service members as symptomatic of the rift between the US military and civil society.
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    Ukraine Is Far From Doomed

    Tatyana Deryugina & Anastassia Fedyk

    When comparing Ukraine’s situation in 2024 to Europe’s in 1941, Russia’s defeat seems entirely possible. But it will require the West, and the US in particular, to put aside domestic political squabbles and muster the political will to provide Ukraine with consistent and robust military and financial assistance.

     compare Russia's full-scale invasion to World War II and see reason to hope – as long as aid keeps flowing.
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    The Pandemic Financing Developing Countries Need

    Rachel Glennerster urges multilateral development banks to establish mechanisms that enable at-risk vaccine purchases.
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    The Geopolitics of Africa’s Debt Crisis

    Anne O. Krueger urges developed countries to back efforts by the IMF and the World Bank to promote growth-enhancing reforms.
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    Why the EU’s New Migration Pact Matters

    Ana Palacio applauds the pragmatic coalition-building, especially by Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, that enabled the deal.
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    AI Needs UN Oversight

    Peter G. Kirchschläger calls for the creation of a watchdog – similar to the IAEA – that employs a human rights-based approach.
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    The West Is Hastening Its Own Decline

    Brahma Chellaney argues that the unprecedented US and European sanctions against Russia are backfiring.
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    Canceling Palestine

    Slavoj Žižek

    Current debates about Israeli policy are rife with double standards, leading to absurd decisions like Germany’s recent cancellation of a pro-Palestinian gathering. By quashing legitimate speech and assembly, an Israel-aligned establishment risks inciting precisely the kind of anti-Semitism that it wants to prevent.

     worries that the double standards applied on Israel’s behalf will lead to an anti-Semitic backlash.
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    America’s Childcare Is Unfit for the Postmodern Age

    Bruce Ackerman urges US President Joe Biden to put universal preschool at the center of his re-election campaign.
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    History Already Tells Us the Future of AI

    Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson find policy lessons for the 2020s in the work of the early-nineteenth-century economist David Ricardo.

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