How the Iran War Is Inadvertently Boosting Our Energy Transition (Brian C. Black, National Interest) Fuel price shocks stemming from the Iran War and closure of the Strait of Hormuz are pushing ...

How Big of a Threat Is Mythos? (Rishi Iyengar, Foreign Policy) Anthropic’s latest AI model has kick-started a new debate.

The Film That Explains Contemporary America (David A. Graham, The Atlantic) The Sorrow and the Pity has lessons for how authoritarianism takes root—and how to fight against it.

Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump (Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic) Zelensky has written off the United States.

Hungary offers lessons in defeating right-wing populists. Why Israel’s Post-Oct. 7 Securit ...

At times during the Cold War, the United States pursued its interests by switching from confrontation to détente: the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty came just six years after the Cuban missile crisis ...

The CIA ’s retraction of intelligence reports should raise concerns about politicization and the Trump administration ...

The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ), the predecessor of Russia, largely shaped the nuclear order that emerged around 1970. The two superpowers engaged in an ...

Donald Trump Is the War’s Biggest Loser ( Economist) There is a reason he wants an exit from Iran.

The Dangers of Hegseth’s “Warfighter” Ethos (Allison McManus, Just Security) Hegseth may present his version of a warfighter as the paragon of U.S. military power, but for all his talk, he fails to ...

Preventing an Iranian Bomb Is Only Getting Harder (Eric Brewer, Foreign Policy) A weaker, angrier, more suspicious regime with a less cautious supreme leader and leverage over Hormuz. What could go ...

The Hungarian leader faces an energized opposition—and questions about whether he would accept defeat. Growing List of Orban Loyalists Defecting Before Critical Election (Andrew Higgins and Lili Rutai ...