Military Competition in Space Will Intensify ( Economist) Five areas to watch in the coming year. When Leaders Mistake Brutality for Strength (Jeff Flake, The Atlantic) Americans may disagree on many ...

What Would Teddy Roosevelt Think of the “Trump Corollary”? (James Holmes, National Interest) The new “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine echoes a similar set of ideas promoted by Teddy Roosevelt ...

Members of the medical and scientific community who have long supported an active government role in health issues likely never expected that a controversial figure like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—who has ...

How Japan Built a Rare-Earth Supply Chain Without China (River Akira Davis and Kiuko Notoya, New York Times) The 15-year effort by Japan is a model for countries now scrambling to reduce their ...

The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) will allow U.S. residents to travel by land and sea to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Bermuda using a passport card rather than a traditional ...

Trump’s New National Security Strategy Goes Full “America First” (Rishi Iyengar and Christina Lu, Foreign Policy) The long-anticipated plan aims to selectively impose the U.S. president’s worldview ...

“Signalgate” Report Contradicts Hegseth’s Claim of “Total Exoneration” (Dan Lamothe, Washington Post) The defense secretary’s actions “created a risk to operational security,” according to an ...

The New German War Machine (Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic) After World War II, Germany embraced pacifism as a form of atonement. Now the country is arming itself again. China’s Turn to National ...

As numbers of migrants fall and restrictions on immigration are implemented, are high public concerns about immigration also likely to come down, reducing pressure on the government? Not necessarily, ...

Hegseth Conscripts the Pentagon for Trump’s “Retribution Campaign” (Noah Robertson, Tara Copp and Sarah Ellison, Washington Post) In threatening to deploy the military justice system against Democrats ...

Israel Is Wondering if America Is Still on Its Side (Anchal Vohra, Foreign Policy) Shifts in U.S. policy and public support have Israelis searching for answers.