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Migrants who crossed the border illegally, surrender near El Paso, TX

How Gender and Economics Shape Attitudes Towards Immigration

Jieun Park

Blog / May 28, 2025

The EAST fusion-research tokamak at the Chinese Academy of Science’s Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) in Hefei, China.

Fusion and China’s Quest for Energy Independence

Jimmy Goodrich

Blog / May 27, 2025

Chinese soldiers with the People's Liberation Army, Mongolia 2015.

China is Militarizing—Will that Make War More Likely?

Tai Ming Cheung

Blog / May 19, 2025

An image of a cargo ship transporting multiple colorful shipping containers. An American flag waves in the foreground.

America Can’t Tariff Its Way Back to Greatness

Seung-Youn Oh

Blog / May 16, 2025

Trading ship docked in the Baltimore Port

What Tariff World Are We In?

Stephan Haggard and Barry Naughton

Blog / May 13, 2025

A debate podium with two microphones

A Debate on What Liberalism Is and Isn’t

Stephan Haggard and Clifford Bob

Blog / May 08, 2025

President Donald Trump stands in front of a large wall depicting the American flag

Will Trump’s Tariffs Make America Great?

Daniel Kono

Blog / April 30, 2025

Photo of a Russian flag flying above a building in front of a blue sky

Russian Economic Statecraft During the 4th Year of War

Vasily Kashin, Alexandra Yankova, and Kristina Kondakova

Blog / April 29, 2025

President Donald Trump talks to members of the press on the South Lawn of the White House. October, 2019.

Flooding the Zone—Foreign Policy Edition

Michaela Mattes

Blog / April 28, 2025

A new AI deep-learning model, entitled COMPOSER, was deployed in emergency departments at UC San Diego Health to quickly predict sepsis infection in high-risk patients.

Technology-Powered Public Goods are Possible—With Strategy

Tim Marple

Blog / April 14, 2025

President Donald Trump speaks at a podium in front of a backdrop of several U.S. flags

Anachronism and Political Performance Define U.S. Tariff Policy

Lauren Peritz

Blog / April 11, 2025

A collage of book covers

14 Books on Authoritarian Rule

Stephan Haggard

Blog / April 07, 2025

Tariffs and Economic Statecraft in Trump’s Second Term

James Lee

Blog / April 02, 2025

Guided bomb units sit in a designated storage area

Five Questions on the Logic of Nuclear Nonuse

Colleen Larkin and Stacie Goddard

Blog / March 31, 2025

Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaking to journalists in Bucha, April 4, 2022.

How Online Misinformation Paved the Way for America’s Pivot Away from Ukraine

William Nomikos

Blog / March 17, 2025

Vladimir Putin and other leaders at a Session of Supreme Eurasian Economic Council

Five Questions on Russian-Led Regional Integration and the Eurasian Economic Union

Alexander Libman

Blog / March 14, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump photographed at the NATO Summit in Brussels, 2018.

What Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand About Alliances

David Lake

Blog / March 06, 2025

Ukrainian soldiers conduct weapons training, 2020.

War Finance in the 21st Century: Insights from Ukraine, Syria, and Beyond

Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Patrick E. Shea

Blog / March 04, 2025