Tag: United States

Not long after I finished reading The Message, New York magazine ran a cover story on the book’s author headlined “The Return of Ta-Nehisi Coates.” This raised the question: Had ...

Strategic energy technologies often start small but can scale quickly with judicious front-end policy support if they possess competitive thermodynamic and technological advantages. Since World War II, the U.S. Defense ...

Following Iran’s massive but largely ineffectual missile barrage launched at Israel on Tuesday, the world is bracing for Israel’s response. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Iran’s attack was ...

Someday, probably later rather than sooner, Israel and Hamas will stop shooting at each other. Relieved U.S. officials could claim there is a cease-fire and the worst is behind us, ...

In the year since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, Israel has gone from looking more vulnerable than it has for half a century—when it almost lost the 1973 Arab-Israeli War—to dramatically ...

U.S. vice presidential candidates Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance—running mates of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, respectively—got their moment in the spotlight ...

U.S. diplomacy is at its best when American diplomats are informed by the diverse perspectives of leaders, foreign service officers, and private sector citizens. Serious diplomacy requires more than talking ...

In May, Kenyan President William Ruto came to Washington on an official state visit. The White House held a glamorous state dinner in his honor; Ruto also attended an Oval ...

Today, Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, will celebrate his 100th birthday. He is the only U.S. president to reach that milestone, and his centenary is an ...

The authors of the U.S. Constitution were all too aware of the dangers of unchecked monarchs, many of whom plunged countries into ill-advised wars. In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, ...