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Getty / The Atlantic Trump Might Not Want to Relinquish Power
Presidents leave. Czars stick around.
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Saul Loeb / Reuters Can North Korea Drag the U.S. and China Into War?
History offers clues about the likely course of a dangerous dynamic in east Asia.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters The North Korean Threat Beyond ICBMs
Even without them, the Kim regime can menace its immediate neighborhood—or sell nuclear material to rogue states.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters What Xi Jinping Wants
China’s leader is determined to turn his country into “the biggest player in the history of the world.” Can he do it while avoiding a dangerous collision with America?
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Joe Raedle / Getty Could 'America First' Lead to War?
China and the U.S. are each intent on greatness. Those visions may not be compatible.
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Max-o-matic Why the U.S. President Needs a Council of Historians
It isn’t enough for a commander in chief to invite friendly academics to dinner. The U.S. could avoid future disaster if policy makers started looking more to the past.
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Baz Ratner / Reuters Is Iran Still Israel’s Top Threat?
How the nuclear agreement looks in the country where its consequences are the gravest
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Wikimedia The Key to Henry Kissinger’s Success
The statesman understood something most diplomats don’t: history—and how to apply it.
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Mike Blake / Damir Sagolj / Reuters / … The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War?
In 12 of 16 past cases in which a rising power has confronted a ruling power, the result has been bloodshed.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters 9 Reasons to Support the Iran Deal
It’s impossible to “solve” the Iranian nuclear threat. This agreement is the next best thing.
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Silvia Siles / Flickr A Point-by-Point Response to the Iran Deal's Critics
Decades of arms-control deals reinforce Nietzsche’s warning: “The most common form of human stupidity is forgetting what one is trying to do.”
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Library of Congress / Reuters A Nuclear Nightmare, Averted
A decades-old treaty offers clues to evaluating the potential deal with Iran.
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Caren Firouz/Reuters The Iran Nuclear Deal, by the Numbers
Assessing the impact of the accord in three charts
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Tim Chong/Reuters The Lee Kuan Yew Conundrum
Singapore's late leader governed undemocratically but effectively. Which raises a question: What is the ultimate purpose of government?
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Damir Sagolj/Reuters Defeating ISIS: With Whose Boots on the Ground?
America is partnering with Iran to fight the Islamic State, whether the U.S. admits it or not.
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James Vaughan/Flickr Just How Likely Is Another World War?
Assessing the similarities and differences between 1914 and 2014
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Reuters/Jo Yong-Hak The Step We Still Haven't Taken to Create a Nuke-Free World
Establishing zones free of nuclear-weapons material would address one of the gravest threats to global security.
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Reuters/Carolyn Kaster The Red-Zone Theory of the Iran Nuclear Deal
Want to understand the significance of the agreement? Channel your inner football fan.
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Beyond Airstrikes: On Syria, Ask 'What Would the Godfather Do?'
Six ways the U.S. can really punish Assad
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Will Iran Get a Bomb—or Be Bombed Itself—This Year?
Placing a bet on today's biggest foreign policy issue.
