The United States' fiscal future depends on whether the country can limit health-care costs.
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The United States' fiscal future depends on whether the country can limit health-care costs.
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New books by Witold Rybczynski and Edward Glaeser celebrate the ever-changing American urban experience.
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Latin American countries are increasingly looking for solutions among themselves, seeking friends and opportunities outside of Washington's orbit.
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What does rise of the Tea Party movement mean for U.S. foreign policy?
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The American version of capitalism is no longer dominant around the world.
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The current debate over quantitative easing overlooks the important question of domestic economic strategy in both the developed and developing world.
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Do the tools of social media make it possible for protesters to challenge their governments?
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Latin Americans must look in the mirror and confront the reality that many of our problems lie not in our stars but in ourselves. Only then will the region finally attain the development it has so long sought.
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Too often over the last decades, policymakers in Washington have viewed Moscow's resistance to U.S. policies through the lens of psychology.
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It is currently fashionable to predict a decline in the United States' power. But the United States is not in absolute decline.
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To meet the range of challenges facing the United States and the world, Washington will have to strengthen and amplify its civilian power abroad.
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The U.S. government is incurring debt at an unprecedented rate.
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Most nations have adjusted their foreign policies to focus on economic security, but the United States has not.
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A major strategic challenge for the United States in the coming decades will be integrating emerging powers into international institutions.
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Global demographics in the twenty-first century will be defined by steep declines in fertility rates. Many countries will see their populations shrink and age.
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Increased connectivity allows for the spread of liberal, open values but also poses a number of dangers.
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A favorite view of the Internet holds that the democratization of communications will bring about the democratization of the world.
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Religion is on the rise around the world, from the southern United States to the Middle East.
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Clean-energy technology is expensive and the United States is spending far too little on developing it.
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Governments across the Middle East and South Asia are increasingly losing power to substate actors that are inserting themselves at a mezzanine level of rule between the government and the people.
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What effect would the fall of the Assad regime have on U.S. policy towards Syria?
Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies
The author analyzes the potentially serious consequences, both at home and abroad, of a lightly overseen drone program and makes recommendations for improving its governance.
The Battle of Bretton Woods
The remarkable story of how the blueprint for the postwar economic order was drawn. More
Invisible Armies
A complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages. More
Tested by Zion
The full insider account of the Bush administration and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. More