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Spring 2025
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Know Your Enemy: Trump the Dove? Or Trump the Neocon?
Matt and Sam are joined by Curt Mills of the American Conservative to assess Trump’s national security team.
Trapped by Empire
The government of Guam has appointed a Commission on Decolonization, but U.S. control means that all of the island’s options, including the status quo, have substantial downsides.
Realism’s Imperial Origins
The left cannot afford to renounce its historical commitment to self-determination.
The Ethics of Realism
We must understand Russia’s invasion of Ukraine not to justify it, but to better find a resolution to the conflict.
Beyond the Blob
An interview with Senator Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy advisor Matt Duss.
Bad Habits
There’s no hiding from the rest of the world.
Responses to Aziz Rana
Patrick Iber, Adom Getachew, Stephen Wertheim, Aslı Bâli, Susie Linfield, Ramzi Kassem, and Darryl Li respond to “Left Internationalism in the Heart of Empire.”
Foreign Policy
A preview of our summer issue.
Left Internationalism in the Heart of Empire
American leftists need an internationalist vision that universally and effectively joins anti-imperial and anti-authoritarian ethics.
Foreign Policy After Trump
Joe Biden promises to lift U.S. foreign policy up from the low-minded nationalism of the Trump era. But the era of confident American hegemony is drawing to a close.
Stopping the War This Time
As the deadening pall of national security discourse once again falls over the United States, we need to hold onto the shock and outrage of these first hours.
Can We Democratize Foreign Policy?
An interview with Stephen Wertheim, Deputy Director of Research and Policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft—a new anti-militarist foreign policy think tank.
George Marshall after the American Century
The pragmatic engagement that Marshall believed in required the United States to know its limits but also to honor its values whenever possible.
Modern Warfare’s Secrets
What do the crimes of a Navy SEAL tell us about U.S. military culture?
