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November 12, 2015

Trade
Where the Candidates Stand on TPP

President Obama is testing one of the hard-and-fast rules of Washington politics: don’t try to pass a trade deal during a presidential election year. The White House would be helped in defying the co…

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December 28, 2022

2022 in Review
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2022

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.  

Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh on her coronation day at Buckingham Palace in 1953.

February 9, 2016

Cybersecurity
The President’s Cybersecurity Plan Is More of the Same (And That’s a Good Thing)

Today, the Obama administration announced the Cybersecurity National Action Plan. Already turned into an acronym in Washington, DC, CNAP is not so much a bold new direction as a tidying up of loose e…

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November 3, 2015

Elections and Voting
Domestic Policy Trumping Foreign Policy in Campaign 2016

The Wall Street Journal and NBC News are out with a new poll today on Campaign 2016. The headline is that Ben Carson has vaulted past Donald Trump for the lead among GOP voters. Polls done this early…

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August 6, 2021

Global
Five Foreign-Policy Movies Worth Watching About Actual World Events

Every summer Friday, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films inspired by reality. 

Three movie posters in black frames. From left: Charlie Wilson's War (a man, woman, and another man in sunglasses look out); Breaker Morant (three men in military uniforms stand over scenes of combat); Invictus (a man in a green and yellow rugby uniform looks triumphant in front of a crowd with Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela behind him).