Commentary and Analysis

"Early poll suggests South Koreans prefer Democratic leader as next peastolitical leader, but caveats abound," writes Marshall M. Bouton Fellow Karl Friedhoff.

Has regionalization or globalization been the key economic trend over the last 40 years?

The United States and Germany are sending their best tanks to Ukraine. Here’s why that matters.

Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford remarks on the foreign policy details of President Biden's 2023 State of the Union address.

“Pro-immigration advocates should lead with comprehensive immigration reform as a way to restore order,” writes John Austin in TIME.

"No Brazilian leader has been so effusively pro-miner—or anti-Indigenous—as the former army captain and gold-prospecting hobbyist Bolsonaro,” writes Rob Muggah.

There was no way for Blinken’s Beijing trip to go on as planned and not focus inordinately on the balloon incident, argues Paul Heer.

Ethan Kessler weighs in on US military preparedness to deal with any potential Chinese aggression toward Taiwan.

Russia has allied with Iran to work around sanctions on both countries. Ethan Kessler discusses on Deep State Radio.

China’s balloon was not a “real strategic threat,” says Bruce Jentleson. “Our satellites overfly China all the time and theirs overfly us.”