Commentary

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks lays out how the United States is trying to stay ahead as new technologies and global threats reshape modern warfare.

Insider insights from the architect of Trump’s 2017 National Security Strategy.

"The decision is going to come down to whether it's Congress' responsibility to tax people and to therefore regulate tariffs, or whether the president really does have carte blanche to do these things" under the IEEPA, Cécile Shea says.

"As Americans eulogize soft power, they should push past nostalgia to consider what precisely has been lost," Suzanne Nossel writes.

"The United States should try to influence the new networks its allies are crafting, not resist them," Julianne Smith argues in Foreign Affairs.

From Poland to Germany, Russian incursions are raising alarms. Experts break down the strategy, the risks, and what comes next.

At least half of all partisans see government corruption and weakening democracy as critical threats, but they are deeply divided on climate change and immigration.

“By preemptively counting itself out, Washington squanders its own influence, isolates itself, and makes room for its rivals to work their will," Suzanne Nossel argues.

Budget cuts, global crises, and a disengaged US, Deep Dish explores the UN at a pivotal moment and whether it can still deliver.

"It's not that every president is a huge fan of the United Nations or multilateralism, internationalism. But this seems to take it to another level," Craig Kafura says.