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How America’s War on Iran Backfired

Tehran Will Now Set the Terms for Peace

Europe Cannot Be a Military Power

Why Defense Integration Could Fracture the Continent

Hugo Bromley

How Takaichi Can Triumph

And What Others Can Learn From Japan’s Embrace of American Power

Michael J. Green

Why Russia Is Watching Iran Burn

The Kremlin Is in No Hurry to Save Its Closest Partner in the Middle East

Alexander Gabuev, Nicole Grajewski, and Sergey Vakulenko

Good Riddance to Corporate Social Responsibility

The End of an Unnecessary Fiction

Diane Coyle

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How Latin America Failed Venezuela

The Region’s Divisions Helped Precipitate U.S. Intervention

Jorge G. Castañeda

The Autonomous Battlefield

And Why the U.S. Military Isn’t Ready for It

David Petraeus and Isaac C. Flanagan

Iran’s Drone Advantage

The Pentagon Copied Tehran’s Technology but Is Still Struggling to Keep Up

Michael C. Horowitz and Lauren A. Kahn

The Trouble With State Capitalism

America Is Adopting a Risky Model

Jami Miscik, Peter Orszag, and Theodore Bunzel

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The Predatory Hegemon

How Trump Wields American Power

Stephen M. Walt

Asia After America

How U.S. Strategy Failed—and Ceded the Advantage to China

Zack Cooper

The Globalist Delusion

Why America Must Build a New Operating System

Nadia Schadlow

The Multipolar Delusion

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What Is the Endgame in Iran?

Trump Needs to Figure Out What He Wants—and Quickly

Colin H. Kahl

America’s Endangered AI

How Weak Cyberdefenses Threaten U.S. Tech Dominance

Fred Heiding and Chris Inglis

Africa After Aid

Cuts Have Revealed the Continent’s Economic Resilience

Landry Signé

Why Escalation Favors Iran

America and Israel May Have Bitten Off More Than They Can Chew

Robert A. Pape

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Iran’s Tenacious Regime and the Future of the Gulf

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The Postliberal Superpower

What Abandoning Democratic Allies Will Cost America

Michael Carpenter

Iran’s Fair-Weather Friends

Why Shiite Militias in Iraq Are Mostly Staying on the Sidelines

Elizabeth Tsurkov

The Mirage of a New Middle East

War With Iran Won’t Reshape the Region the Way America Wants

Dalia Dassa Kaye

Israel After the Iran War

The False Promise of Total Victory

Shira Efron

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America Needs a Plan for Tehran’s Nuclear Program

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