the United States

The United States says it controls the strait; Iran demonstrates that it can still prevent the world from using it normally “A power can control the sea with aircraft carriers. Real power begins when ships are still afraid to sail…

The New Walls of Power “25 U.S. states decided to go to court to challenge the legal authority used by the president to unilaterally modify U.S. trade policy…” “For centuries, empires built walls to protect their borders.” “In the twenty-first…

Donald Trump did not invent America’s vulnerabilities, but he has driven them to a breaking point. His contempt for democratic norms, alliances, and international law has transformed the United States from an anchor of a rules based order into a…

China, the United States, Russia, India, and the long journey of the primitive being who learned to look at the stars “The problem is not that the bus is lost. The problem is that the passengers keep fighting over the…