The Realignment
Michael Shellenberger, environmentalist activist, founder and president of Environmental Progress, joins The Realignment to make the pro-nuclear, anti...
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RealClear Markets
Ford, Uniliver, Pfizer, and over 500 other companies have recently pledged to suspend advertising spending on Facebook and other social networks as pa...
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Forbes
In the two years since America’s National Defense Strategy heralded the return of great power competition, military leaders have called for U.S. force...
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Wall Street Journal
Does Libya show us the future of world politics? U.S. engagement there has been minimal since a 2012 terrorist attack killed four Americans, includin...
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National Review
China is determined to outmuscle and outmaneuver the United States in every military domain. It would be foolish to base American security strategy on...
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The Australian
Take with a large grain of salt the diplomatic denials that the 2020 Strategic Defence Update and "commitment to spend $270bn on defence across the ne...
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National Review
On June 30, the Chinese Communist Party’s Standing Committee, the functional seat of power in mainland China, approved a “national security” law...
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Wall Street Journal
Sometimes life throws you a metaphor. As my neighbors and I stood, masked and socially distanced, to watch Washington’s fireworks Saturday, a thick ...
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The American Conservative
Most Americans think of philanthropy or charity as benevolent activity undertaken among neighbors and fellow worshippers within small, local organizat...
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Business Insider
For the first time ever, the Russian government has publicly released a document laying out the logic and principles underpinning its approach to nucl...
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Wall Street Journal
When bestselling mystery novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart, in 1914, asked the editor of the Saturday Evening Post to send her to Europe to cover the war...
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RealClear Defense
The Jones Act celebrates its 100th birthday this year. Don’t worry if you forgot to send a gift–you're not alone. The law requires that ships enga...
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The Realignment
Nick Timothy, author of Remaking One Nation: The Future of Conservatism and former Chief of Staff to U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May, joins The Realig...
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The Hill
America faces a series of threats that require the integration of all instruments of national power. This goes far beyond “joint operations.” At t...
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Middle East Institute
Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union, the newly independent states of the Caspian and Russia are still deeply intertwined in each other’s econom...
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Forbes
China’s ascent to global market share leadership in advanced commercial telecommunications has featured many tactics: subsidization of domestic produc...
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Defense News
Data is arguably the most important strategic asset to emerge in the 21st century. Access to data and the ability to protect its integrity are vital t...
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Wall Street Journal
The Israeli cabinet is scheduled to begin discussions this week on the possible unilateral annexation of Israeli settlements in the West Bank along wi...
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Foreign Policy
Hong Kong, where the sun finally set on the British Empire in 1997, is now the fulcrum of London’s most fateful foreign-policy decisions since Brexi...
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Wall Street Journal
Two pandemics are sweeping the planet, and so far nobody has found a cure for either. There’s Covid-19 and there’s a global democracy blight causi...
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The Jerusalem Post
Turkish aggression in at least five countries has been headlined in international news reports just this month, June 2020. These accounts focus on Pre...
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Washington Times
America faces a serious, pervasive and anonymous threat to national security. A top Pentagon official recently called it the “biggest concern [and] ...
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In an interview with Lou Dobbs on Fox Business, Michael Pillsbury discusses the need for increased FBI funding for counterintelligence against China. ...
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Defense News
The government of Japan’s recent decision to scrap its Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense installations raises concerns about the Japan-U.S. allia...
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The American Mind
The leftist demagoguery of playing the “race card” did not begin with the candidacy of Donald J. Trump. It has been building for nearly 50 years. ...
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Current Trends in Islamist Ideology
Years may pass before we can fully appraise the extent to which Soleimani’s network will recover from the loss of its towering patron. ...
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National Review
As spring turns to summer, temperatures are rising outdoors and on the Hill. Last week, Mitch McConnell "noted()":https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/polit...
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Religion Unplugged
Two decades ago, Ahmet Davutoğlu, who subsequently became Turkish foreign minister, announced that Turkey wanted a “no enemies” foreign policy. B...
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Forbes
It’s like an episode from Homeland. In December 2018 Canadian officials arrested Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of China’s biggest telecom equipment compa...
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Newsweek
America's trade war with China took an unexpected turn with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the global shutdown continues to ravage both countr...
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Japan Forward
The death of Shigeru Yokota in June was a reminder of the atrocities perpetrated by North Korea under its kidnapping program in the 1970s and 1980s. ...
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Wall Street Journal
The Korean War began 70 years ago, on June 25, 1950, when Kim Jong Un’s grandfather sent troops across the 38th parallel into the South. Pyongyang s...
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IP Watchdog
A year ago, the Senate held three days of hearings with 45 witnesses on a legislative proposal that would have brought much-needed reform of 35 U.S.C....
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Foreign Policy
We know from every disaster movie that time is supposed to accelerate, not stand still, during a catastrophe. If asked to draw a scenario months ago, ...
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Wall Street Journal
While the Covid-19 pandemic appears to be easing, the spending battles in Washington are as animated as ever. With both parties eager to set the econo...
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Wall Street Journal
Another week, another series of crises in the exhausting if not quite yet exhausted presidency of Donald Trump. Like a hurricane over dry land, the ad...
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Hudson Institute
Following is the full transcript of the June 8th, 2020 Hudson online livestream event titled Congressman Mike Gallagher on the Importance of Strategic...
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The Realignment
Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor and publisher of the socialist magazine Jacobin, joins The Realignment to debate Marshall and Saagar on the vices and...
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Defense One
The dominance in coordination, intelligence, and targeting that enabled American victory in conventional conflicts throughout the post-Cold War period...
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RealClear Markets
"Google’s attempt()":https://www.wsj.com/articles/nbc-tries-to-cancel-a-conservative-website-11592410893?mod=opinion_lead_pos5 to “demonetize” "...
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National Review
From World War II until today, America’s unsurpassed military power has been built on air supremacy. All experts agree that the future of air power ...
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National Interest
Margaret Thatcher famously said that “Power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” The Air Force’s recent “e...
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The American Interest
There’s a lot of blood on the floor in Washington these days, so the reader may not be focused on the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). But it...
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WION
Since late May, China has positioned nearly 5,000 troops and occupied at least three areas along its disputed border with India, known as the Line of ...
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MISES Wire
Speculative frenzy in the midst of recession is not a new phenomenon. Yet the extent of the “madness” this time might well beat records in the sma...
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RealClear World
Any victory for democracy and the rule of law is worth celebrating in these tumultuous times, no matter how small the country. Guyana, an English-spea...
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RealClear Defense
Media elation at the recent U.S. space achievements needs to be tempered by recognizing that the history of space exploration is one of the setbacks. ...
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Forbes
Like many of its beleaguered workers — almost 27,000 of whom have tested positive for Covid-19 — the American meatpacking megalopolis is showing up fo...
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Hudson Institute
Wall Street Journal
The idea of compensating the descendants of American slaves for the injustices inflicted on their ancestors, as William A. Darity and A. Kirsten Mulle...
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Newsweek
Over the last few months, President Trump has unleashed the most intense round of U.S. actions against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in decades. ...
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Fox Business
In an interview with Lou Dobbs on Fox Business, Michael Pillsbury discusses Secretary Mike Pompeo’s meeting with China’s top diplomat. ...
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The Hill
Chinese fighter jets crossed the Taiwan Strait’s “mid-line,” the unofficial boundary between Taipei and Beijing, on Feb. 10. Since then, Chinese...
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American Compass
Michael Lind’s essay on local content requirements (LCRs) has an Occam’s Razor-like elegance and plausibility, proposing LCRs as the most effective to...
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Wall Street Journal
As Covid-19 continues to disrupt the world economic and political order, the global climate-change movement faces a choice: Learn the lessons of the p...
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Al Arabiya
In an interview with Al Arabiya, Richard Weitz discusses Turkey and Russia military action in Libya. ...
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The Hill
The United States is in the midst of a 21st century cold war with China. A shockwave that started in Wuhan last December, when the "novel coronavirus(...
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The Realignment
RealClear Religion
On June 10, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) hosted a crucial hearing in response to numerous reports of religious free...
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Current Trends in Islamist Ideology
The great crisis of the great Islamic civilization is generated by the conflict between those Muslims who want to uphold a pre-modern worldview and......
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In an interview with Lou Dobbs on Fox Business, Michael Pillsbury discusses China’s intent to fight back against attempts at decoupling. ...
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American Compass
After the fall of the Soviet Empire and the entry of China into the global trading system, a new idea was added to the canon of neoliberalism: that fo...
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RealClear Markets
Reacting to the perceived political bias of certain social media platforms, President Trump recently issued an executive order...
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Hoover Institution
A plague has occurred that is unprecedented and the likes of which we have never heard of before … it has spread throughout the country, east a...
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Wall Street Journal
For decades religious freedom has been treated as the unwanted stepchild in the human-rights side of U.S. foreign policy. But in a rare ray of light t...
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Forbes
Robots, unmanned systems, autonomous vehicles–they go by many names, but ships and aircraft without an onboard operator are increasingly portrayed a...
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The American Interest
The pandemic that began in, and spread from, China will lead to serious, linked financial and security challenges for the United States. As America lo...
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NBC
I've been in downtown Washington, D.C., several times in the past few days and have watched protesters insist on accountability for the "killing of Ge...
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Wall Street Journal
Noah Feldman, Harvard law professor and Middle East expert, is a democracy promoter who’s been mugged by reality. In “The Arab Winter: A Tragedy,...
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Wall Street Journal
President Trump’s decision to withdraw 9,500 troops from Germany stunned officials in both countries—including many in his own administration. The...
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Foreign Policy
The canceled G-7 summit this week, unfortunately, is no great misfortune. Though it’s a shame that the group of seven major industrialized nations...
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Hudson Institute
If you were hoping that the Chinese coronavirus would be an opportunity to work together to develop a bipartisan approach to making sure this can’t...
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Fox Business
In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business, Michael Pillsbury discusses the growing list of tensions between the U.S. and China. ...
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Fox Business
In an interview with Lou Dobbs on Fox Business, Michael Pillsbury discusses China’s propaganda machine and the CCP’s use of channels of influence to e...
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Defense and Aerospace Report
In a podcast interview on the Defense and Aerospace Report daily podcast, Bryan Clark discusses Navy force structure and his recent testimony to the H...
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Hoover Institution
The coronavirus pandemic is not, by the standards of the great plagues of the past, a particularly deadly disease. The plague that struck the Athens o...
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National Review
On the campaign trail in 1968, a bold memo by a young aide, “Middle America and the New Republican Majority,” started circulating among the Nixon ...
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Forbes
The outbreak and spread of the Coronavirus aroused global doubts about the Chinese government’s credibility and trustworthiness—and no wonder. Wit...
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Religion Unplugged
For good reason, there has been a national outcry about the brutal death of George Floyd, a black man who died under the knee of a white police office...
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Wall Street Journal
For Americans, the face of North Korea’s human-rights depredations is Otto Warmbier, the University of Virginia student who died three years ago at ...
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Sky News
In an interview on Sky News Australia, John Lee discusses increasing tensions between Australia and the CCP. ...
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Wall Street Journal
As the White House fumbles with its response to the country’s most disruptive mass movement since the Vietnam War and U.S. society reflects on the a...
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The Print
The crisis unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic will almost definitely create a new global order, and India could emerge stronger. But for that, Indi...
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Earlier this month, the influential head of the Social Democratic Party’s (SPD) parliamentary group, Rolf Mützenich, called...
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Hudson Institute
On May 22, China’s ruling Communist Party acted to end the autonomy that Hong Kong had enjoyed since its return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. Hong...
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Hudson Institute
Chairman Courtney, Ranking Member Wittman, and distinguished members of the committee, I am honored to appear today for this discussion of the U.S. Na...
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NIICE Nepal
In a panel discussion for NIICE Nepal, Satoru Nagao discusses the future of the Indo-Pacific in the post coronavirus political landscape. ...
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Fox News
There is a big debate about designating Antifa a terrorist group and what if any steps the federal government can take to stop the rioting. But we all...
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Sinclair
In an interview with James Rosen on Sinclair, Michael Pillsbury discusses Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the WHO. ...
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Bloomberg
In an interview on Bloomberg Daybreak Europe, Brendan Brown discusses the European Central Bank’s extension of the QU purchase program and the Europea...
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Wall Street Journal
Donald Trump will be president for either 7½ more months or 4½ more years. The voters who support him will be around for much longer. For students...
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Forbes
The traumatic events of the past months have underlined one fundamental truth: the only thing more important than the safety and security of Americans...
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Fox Business
In an interview with Lou Dobbs on Fox Business, Michael Pillsbury discusses China’s aggressive rhetoric towards Trump administration officials. ...
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Newsweek
In his Friday address on Hong Kong, President Donald Trump mused that we once hoped that "Hong Kong would be a glimpse of China's future." What he mea...
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The Jerusalem Post
Over the years, disagreements on China have damaged the US-Israeli relationship. At the moment, they are irritants, but if mishandled, they could seve...
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Wall Street Journal
As a beleaguered Trump administration struggles with an unprecedented surge of domestic challenges, foreign leaders friendly and otherwise are recalib...
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RealClear Markets
Saddled with $15 billion of debt, the satellite operator Intelsat "recently announced a Chapter 11 bankruptcy....
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The Realignment
Hudson Senior Fellow Dr. John Lee returns to The Realignment to make the case for decoupling the American and Chinese economies after the COVID-19 cri...
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The Australian
Chinese President Secretary Xi Jinping openly refers to the BRI as the primary blueprint to herald the arrival of a Sino-centric strategic and economi...
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Fox Business
Two brave American souls are expected to lift off from Apollo 11’s historic launch pad on Saturday afternoon. When they do, the feat will mark the f...
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