The New Yorker4d
The Fraught U.S.-Soviet Search for Alien Life
During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...
RealClearMarkets3d
What Suzanne Massie Taught Ronald Reagan About the Russians
How much do their leaders believe in communism?” That was the first question Ronald Reagan asked Suzanne Massie, the recently ...
Washington Monthly3d
As Ukraine Fights, Echoes of Historic Meetings in Yalta and Helsinki Abound
On their anniversaries, Yalta and Helsinki offer lessons for Ukraine, Trump, and the balance of power in Europe.
What USAID does, and why Trump and Musk want to get rid of it
Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in ...
From Cuba to Brazil: How USAID became a political interference tool in various countries
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), established by former President John F. Kennedy in 1961, has ...
Religious freedom is routinely curbed in Central Asia – but you won’t often see it making international news
International news outlets generally devote little attention to religious freedom almost anywhere around the world, except for large-scale tragedies such as the repression of Muslim Uyghurs in western ...
Opinion
R Street Institute3dOpinion
Ramifications of China’s DeepSeek Moment, Part 2: AI, Cultural Values, and Global Freedom
Part 1 in this three-part series discussed some of the competitive and national-security ramifications of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) innovator DeepSeek launching its powerful new R1 ...