Monica de Bolle, an expert in Brazilian economic policy, makes an authoritative argument that Brazil’s economic problems will persist no matter the outcome of the country’s presidential election. A ...

On October 8, the USS Abraham Lincoln and its accompanying strike group returned to the United States after 320 days at sea. The deployment—a near record for the modern American military—had become ...

CHARLES KUPCHAN is Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. A former member of the National Security Council staff during the ...

Dima Adamsky, an expert on Russian security and Russian nuclear deterrence strategy at Harvard and Reichman Universities, examines a large-scale shift in Russia’s strategic thinking over the past year ...

This obsession with wielding and countering chokepoint power may seem sudden, but it has evolved over the last quarter century as a byproduct of globalization itself. As economies integrated, ...

Oppressed Groups and the Pursuit of Radical Democracy,” Hari Ramesh argues that even when powerful groups dominate a country, oppressed groups can harness the government’s power toward their own ends ...

How Trump Voters Seized the Party From Republican Leaders, Seth Masket, a political scientist, conducted extensive interviews and surveys throughout 2021 and 2024 with the Republican officials ...

From Hiroshima to the Age of Algorithms, John Arquilla laments the U.S. government’s fixation on nuclear weapons, airpower, and computational analytics, which has prevented its officials from grasping ...

A high-level debate on the Chinese and global economy, carried out by Mike Froman, Council on Foreign Relations president and former U.S. trade representative, and Nicholas Lardy, an expert on the ...

How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It marshals staggering evidence of the extent to which the United States has become an “oldigarchy” and offers solutions.

How the United States and the Soviet Union Fought Over the Portrayal of Nazi Crimes, Sylvie Lindeperg reinterprets the Nuremberg trials that followed World War II as an effort to score propaganda ...

Political Protest and Generational Change in El Salvador, Ellen Moodie, an anthropologist, traces the evolution of political activism in El Salvador from the civil war of the 1980s to the present ...