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Spencer Platt / Getty Lame Duck? Shots Fired.
Why a Republican win on Tuesday may push the White House into a more aggressive foreign policy posture.
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Getty Images/Photo Illustration by FP Netanyahu’s Not Chickenshit, the White House Is
The administration is a coward for not saying what it really thinks about the special relationship with Israel.
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MOHAMMED SAWAF / AFP Middle East Meltdown
In a region now crowded with failed states, a murderous terrorist group has gained a foothold, changing the power dynamics and the United States needs to pay attention.
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Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images The Pendulum and the President
An exclusive excerpt from “National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear.”
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Mario Tama/Getty Images The Dark Side of Dilma
Why Brazil's election result is nothing but trouble.
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EPA/RAFAL GUZ Keep Calm and Carry On, Stephen Harper
Doubling down on counterterrorism at home and abroad won’t make Canada a safer place.
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Department of Defense Yoda Has Left the Building
Andy Marshall, 93, has been the Pentagon’s futurist in chief for over 50 years. He hasn’t had a new idea since the 1970s.
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GERARD JULIEN/AFP/Getty Images The Regretful Jihadists of the Islamic State
The West is terrified of foreign fighters returning from Iraq and Syria. But not all of them are trying to bring jihad with them.
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Feng Li/Getty Images The Canary in China’s Central Bank
Is Beijing's Ben Bernanke on his way out?
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Top Image: Christian Keenan/Getty Images How to Shut Down a Country and Kill a Disease
China’s response to SARS a decade ago was effective but brutal. Is there a better way to stop the spread of Ebola?
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HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images Is Laziness the Cause of Economic Inequality?
Americans and the British lean toward moral weakness, but the rest of the world blames government policies.
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Photo by JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD/AFP/Getty Images How to Salvage France’s Mistral Shipwreck
Selling warships to Russia doesn't seem like a great idea right now. But there's someone else that could buy them -- and make it a win-win for European security.
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Photo by Gali Tibbon - Pool/ Getty Images It’s Not Washington’s Fault
Not only is it wrong to blame the Islamic State's rise on the U.S. failure to secure a two-state solution -- it's also flat-out dangerous.
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Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Terrorists Among Us
Americans have good reason to be afraid of another attack on U.S. soil -- only it's not going to come from the Islamic State.
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Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images; Nuclear Posture Review 2010/U.S. DoD; Google Earth/Jeffrey Lewis; Asan Institute for Policy Studies No, the U.S. Doesn’t Have Plans to Nuke North Korea
Where did the idea for a "nuclear umbrella" come from, anyway?
