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June 19, 2020

United States
Five Foreign-Policy Satires Worth Watching

Each Friday this summer, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: classic satires.

The movie posters from The Great Dictator (yellow with Charlie Chaplin over a globe), Dr. Strangelove (black and white actor smoking a cigarette), In the Loop (two silhouettes, one with U.S. flag the other with the UK flag), MASH (a hand with the peace sign and an army helmet on the finger), Catch-22 (a man walks away from a plane wreckage in the desert), and Wag the Dog (a tape recorder with the presidential seal) arranged in one picture.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay and Margaret Gach The Water's Edge

October 9, 2018

Donald Trump
The Corrosion of Conservatism

Max Boot recounts his extraordinary journey from lifelong Republican to vehement Trump opponent. From the isolated position of a man without a party, Boot launches this bold declaration of dissent an…

Book by Max Boot

July 2, 2012

United States
Corporate Teleconference: Affordable Care Act

Former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Peter Orszag and NYU Law School Professor Barry Friedman discuss the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), how it will impact the country's he…

Podcast
Event by Peter R. Orszag, Barry Friedman, and Gideon Rose

February 8, 2013

Defense and Security
The Presidential Inbox: U.S. Defense Spending

This meeting will be part of a series on the U.S. presidential inbox that examines the major issues confronting the administration in the foreign policy arena.

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Event by Gordon M. Adams

April 8, 2009

Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Charting the current US downturn

My colleague at the Council’s Center for Geoeconomic Studies -- Paul Swartz -- has been tracking how the current US downturn stacks up against the typical post-War War 2 downturn. The answer isn’t…

Charting the current US downturn
Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money