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The Cost of Keeping China Out
How Washington’s fear of Chinese investment hurts American competitiveness.
Standing With Afghan Women
How to support the movement resisting the Taliban’s extremism.
The Long Shadow of the Iran Shock
Hormuz and the new geography of energy power.
How to Broker Peace in Ukraine
Decades of hard-won mediation experience point the way.
The Next Global Economic Crisis Could Be Made in China
How overcapacity ends.
The AI Growth Paradox
Why high productivity could still lead to a crash.
America’s Fatal Attraction to War
The perverse incentives for presidents to use military force.
The Path to Development in a Post-Aid World
How fragile states can fortify themselves.
China’s Hunger Games
How Beijing turned its food insecurity into geopolitical leverage.
Why China Worries About North Korea
Beijing’s plans to manage an assertive Pyongyang.
China’s Legal Weapon
Beijing’s quest to challenge America’s legal hegemony.
After Putin
Russia’s coming succession crisis.
Why We Should Fight
And where Trump went wrong.
America Must Let Go of the Middle East
The Failed Iran war should spur a long-overdue withdrawal.
The Right Way to Balance Trade
What Comes after the neoliberal order.
How the Axis of Resistance Recovered
The Iranian-led network Is more dangerous than ever.
America’s Superintelligence Dilemma
How to avoid an AI catastrophe.
The War China Might Choose
A new Taiwan option.
The New Forever Wars
How America gets stuck in its allies’ fights.