Cold War

April 7, 2025 | Ryan Brobst, Bradley Bowman

Arsenal of Democracy

Arming Taiwan, Ukraine, and Israel While Strengthening the U.S. Industrial Base

April 2, 2025 | Ivana Stradner, Marina Chernin

Europe Must Take the Lead

By cutting funds to US media initiatives, the Trump administration is surrendering to Russia in the information war that began with Radio Free Europe 75 years ago.

March 21, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

Countering the Oct. 7 deniers

A new report on Hamas’s atrocities offers an impressive counterweight for undecided readers who will encounter the deniers as they seek the truth.

March 21, 2025 | Isaac A. Harris, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Patrick Jenevein

To Confront China, President Trump Should Target its State-Owned Enterprises

The PRC’s strategic use of SOEs poses an existential threat to American economic sovereignty and security.

March 20, 2025 | Elizabeth Robbins

To save VOA, burn down the ‘firewall’

Law enshrined the virtue of the free press on the taxpayer's dime

March 20, 2025 | Cleo Paskal |

Crossroads of Competition

China in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands

March 17, 2025 | Peter Doran |

Why NATO Should Move Nuclear Weapons to Poland

Expanding the nuclear-sharing program to Warsaw would send a clear message to Putin: any attack on Poland would be a catastrophic mistake.

March 14, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

It’s time to abolish the UN’s pro-Hamas bureaucracy

Fifty years later, the world body still behaves as though “Zionism is racism” remains on the books.

March 11, 2025 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Our Foes Would Fill Doran’s Mideast Vacuum

Michael Doran might be jumping the gun in claiming that Donald Trump is channeling Ronald Reagan in the Middle East (Letters, March 10). We don’t know yet whether the president...

February 28, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

How Germany’s new leader can make history

Friedrich Merz is in favor of boosting Europe’s military strength, standing against antisemites and by the Jewish state, and getting tougher on Iran.

February 25, 2025 | Jack Burnham |

The United States Must Become the AI Arsenal of Democracy

The United States confronts an adversary far more technologically savvy than any of those that came before. As with the Cold War, both Washington and Beijing view dominance over science and technology...

February 25, 2025 | Craig Singleton |

Missed Milestones

Evaluating The Last Four Years in the EAP Region and Unseized Opportunities Under President Trump

January 28, 2025 | Matt Pottinger |

Memo to Trump: Beware the ‘Reverse Teddy’

I was proud to serve the president in his first term. But Trump’s strength in the Western Hemisphere could portend weakness in Europe and Asia in his second, writes Matt Pottinger.

January 12, 2025 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

How the Left Views Langley

REVIEW: 'The CIA: An Imperial History’ by Hugh Wilford

January 1, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

American greatness requires great military power

Encouragingly, most Americans understand that 

December 31, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Russia enters 2025 at a crossroads in a post-Assad Middle East

Having lost it's Syrian ally in the former Assad regime, Russia is shifting forces from Syria to other places.

December 17, 2024 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

The Near Enemy: China’s Subnational Reach Into the United States

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December 15, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Is Syria’s Julani part of a rising generation of younger Middle East leaders?

If Julani is to remain in power for the coming years, he could play a transformative role in Syria and the Middle East.

November 26, 2024 | Ivana Stradner, Jason Jay Smart

Team Trump mustn’t buy Putin’s nuke threats: We’re not on the verge of WW III

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin is beating his chest again, hinting he may use nuclear weapons. Don’t buy the bluffs: We’re not on the verge of a nuclear World War III. Putin’s huffing...

November 20, 2024 | George Bogden, David Rader

Out with the old in the Old World: How Trump can usher in Eastern Europe’s moment

“In times of rapid change,” remarked industrialist J. Paul Getty, “experience could be your worst enemy.” For those in Washington, Brussels, and Berlin who are panicking about what a second...