Elaine Kamarck As the Senate nears its second vote on whether or not to convict former President Trump and bar him from holding future office,...

Michael Sinclair and Mir Sadat Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin faces a host of challenges that are rapidly outpacing fiscal calendars, election cycles and even the best laid military plans...

Michael Garcia Bochenek Almost three years ago, the world heard a group of children sobbing in anguish after US border agents forcibly separated them from their parents....

Speakers Jonathan Gruber Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Josh Wolfe Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Lux Capital Presiders James P. Dougherty Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy, Council on...

Taiwan “is becoming the most dangerous flash point in the world for a possible war that involves the United States, China, and probably other major powers,” warn Robert...

Zachary Haver In recent years, the maritime law enforcement (MLE) forces of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have dominated the contested waters of the...

Tracy Hadden Loh and Andre M. Perry This week, former President Donald Trump is facing his second impeachment trial, this time for his role in the failed...

Michael E. O’Hanlon In her confirmation hearings to become Deputy Secretary of Defense—and thus now the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. military—Dr....

When President Biden took office, he made it clear that advancing racial equity would be a top priority for his administration. From housing to...

Hans-Georg Betz Donald Trump was not simply a fleeting moment in contemporary American politics — quite the opposite. https://www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/hans-georg-betz-trumpism-after-trump-capitol-hill-insurrection-fascism-american-democracy-news-10191/

Peter Isackson Trump turned the JCPOA into a shabby melodrama that the Biden administration will have trouble preventing from turning to tragedy. https://www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/peter-isackson-jcpoa-iran-nuclear-deal-biden-administration-nuclear-weapons-world-news-79101/

James Bohland Maintaining a vibrant democracy in the United States requires recognition that exceptionalism does not make us invulnerable to autocratic impulses of our past. https://www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/james-bohland-donald-trump-second-impeachment-trial-capitol-hill-insurrection-american-democracy-authoritarianism-news-11811/

Peter Isackson Can Joe Biden change a US policy that has always been more about appearance than facts? https://www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/peter-isackson-joe-biden-us-foreign-policy-china-wuhan-covid-19-origin-who-investigation-79699/

Richard Rossow https://www.csis.org/analysis/us-india-commercial-ties-search-ambition

Kaitlyn Johnson https://www.csis.org/analysis/infinity-and-beyond-civil-and-commercial-space-policy-biden-administration

J. Brian Atwood and Larry Garber https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2021/02/10/usaids-policy-voice-should-be-heard/