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June 1, 2023

United States
Meet Ron DeSantis, Republican Presidential Candidate

The Florida governor announced his candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. 

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Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

March 24, 2014

How Do We Pay to Repair America’s Decaying Infrastructure?

America’s publicly owned infrastructure is falling apart. One in nine bridges in the United States is “structurally deficient.” There are 240,000 water main breaks each year. Thirty-two percent of Am…

Passengers wait for a train at New York's Penn Station. (Shannon Stapleton/Courtesy Reuters)
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

September 30, 2010

China
Won’t be an Apple or Google in China for Next 50 or 100 Years

Over on Foreign Affairs, I have another piece on indigenous innovation and what it means for the United States.   Most of the points have already been well covered on Asia Unbound (here, here, and …

Kai-Fu Lee
Blog Post by Adam Segal Asia Unbound

December 4, 2015

Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016 Friday Foreign Policy Roundup: Terrorism Concerns Grow

Last month I wrote that domestic policy issues were trumping foreign policy ones in the minds of the American voters. In one poll, eight in ten Americans said that domestic issues would have the bigg…

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Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

December 10, 2013

United States
Egypt: Mockery

There is no shortage of advice in the United States about how the Obama administration should approach Egypt.  The familiar ring of policy prescriptions bouncing around the Beltway and beyond is eith…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates