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July 14, 2022

United States
Webb Is a Reminder of America’s Technical Prowess in Future Global Competition and Cooperation

This major space success will attract the talent the U.S. needs to maintain technical preeminence, shows the difficulty others may have in kicking America out of first place, and demonstrates the ben…

The first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

August 27, 2021

U.S. Foreign Policy
Five Movies Worth Watching About Foreign-Policy Conspiracies

Every summer Friday, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films about conspiracies in the halls of power. 

Three movie posters in black frames. From left: The Manchurian Candidate (a sketch of a man, a gun, and a queen of hearts card); JFK (a man looks out from a red, white, and blue design); Kill the Messenger (a man with the U.S. Capitol Building reflected in his sunglasses).

September 18, 2017

United States
Happy 70th Birthday to the U.S. Air Force!

The United States Air Force marks seventy years of service.

Air Force Birthday

April 2, 2015

Health
Pharmaceuticals in Global Health Security

The following is a guest post by my colleague Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. The Ebola epidemic showed in harrowing detail the human devastati…

An Ebola trials notebook is seen in a laboratory during trials for an Ebola vaccine at the Jenner Institute in Oxford, England, on January 16, 2015.

October 11, 2011

China
Giant Sucking Sound: China and IPR Theft

Water Vortex. (Courtesy Creative Commons) That phrase is of course associated with presidential candidate Ross Perot and what he believed would be the massive loss of jobs to Mexico after the signin…

Giant Sucking Sound: China and IPR Theft