Politics
The United States Needs to Stress Test Critical Infrastructure for Different AI Adoption Scenarios
While AI may provide a way to help protect critical infrastructure, there is a growing need to stress test it under different conditions to prevent hallucinations and errors in output....
The Costs of Killing the Civil Service
Trump’s blitz against the independence of the civil service is undermining a core pillar of American democracy. President Donald Trump showed his admiration for Andrew Jackson when, eight years ago,...
Making FEMA’s Emergency Management Great Again
President Trump can reform or rebuild FEMA into the world-class emergency management agency that it can, and must, be. On January 24, while visiting North Carolina to gain insight into the...
Marco Rubio Reveals His Big Plans for the U.S. State Department
Like the Trump presidency, Rubio placed mass migration and border security at the top of his priorities list. Marco Rubio, Donald Trump’s newly-confirmed secretary of state, has assumed office with gusto, dispersing...
Change in the Land Down Under? Australia’s Possible Reaction to Trump 2.0
Beijing’s state media recently published an article drawing attention to Washington’s apparent plans to use Australia as a “beachhead” for the looming Indo-Pacific war. Besides missing the strategic context of...
Trump to Reinstate Servicemembers Expelled for Not Taking COVID Vaccine
The Department of Defense mandated a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for all members of the U.S. military from August 2021 to January 2023. President Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term on...
Is Donald Trump a Great President?
Is Donald Trump a great president? That’s the question posed by John F. Harris in Politico, less in the spirit of endorsing Trump than suggesting that he is nothing less than “the greatest...
President Trump Holds the Cards to Reshape the World
President Donald Trump is a fortunate man with the resolve to create his own luck. As he reenters the Oval Office, he finds a world in flux, with American adversaries...
Toward a New Russia Policy: An Agenda for the Trump Administration
U.S.-Russian relations have reached a nadir not seen since the darkest days of the Cold War. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes his country is engaged in a historic confrontation with...
Why Senate Republicans Should Reject Pete Hegseth
Every president makes at least one mistaken appointment to his cabinet, and President-elect Donald Trump is no exception. Nominating TV weekend personality Pete Hegseth to be secretary of defense was...
Trudeau’s Resignation: A Delay Of The Inevitable?
Justin Trudeau has been the prime minister of Canada for a little under a decade, having won parliamentary majorities three times in 2015, 2019, and 2021. The name Trudeau has...
Donald Trump’s Threat to Foreign Policy Restraint
President-elect Trump believes that the United States has no important interests in Syria, or so he tweeted last week. This announcement has strengthened the view of some in the restraint...