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A Gift to Putin: Biden’s Disastrous Response on Ukraine

On the menu today: President Biden’s comment about minor incursions by Russian forces into Ukraine is a big deal, much bigger than he realized when he said it — another indication that vast swaths of the American foreign-policy cognoscenti really are unable to understand Vladimir Putin. Elsewhere, Greg and I …

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America’s Coming Age of Instability

Why Constitutional Crises and Political Violence Could Soon Be the Norm When Joe Biden was sworn in as president a year ago today, many Americans breathed a heavy sigh of relief. President Donald Trump had tried to steal the election, but he had failed. The violent insurrection he incited on …

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America Needs a Bolder Biden

A Year In, His Foreign Policy Is Too Cautious and Conventional On August 31, 2021, a little more than two weeks after the government in Kabul fell, U.S. President Joe Biden delivered a scorching defense of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. “To those asking for a third decade of war …

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