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Elevate Government Affairs has hired David Marten, a former aide to Senate Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell.

The prospect of Russia using nuclear weapons, even smaller ones, should frighten everyone given their enormous power.

And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is expressing more optimism about the GOP’s chances of reclaiming the majority.

Western allies are figuring out their planned reactions to the Kremlin’s forced annexation of parts of eastern Ukraine expected to be unveiled Friday, as Vladimir Putin pushes to consolidate dwindling gains in his faltering war.

The president’s latest pledge to defend the island contradicts the US’s longstanding One China policy

Biden once scolded George W. Bush for pledging to defend Taiwan. Now he is making a worse mistake by chipping away at long-standing policy without a better alternative.

Why there are relatively few African Americans in the senior ranks of the U.S. military and what can be done about it.

Christopher S. Chivvis is the director of the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment.

Why there are relatively few African Americans in the senior ranks of the U.S. military and what can be done about it.

It was easy when foreign policy intellectuals of the left and the anti-neocon right got together to oppose U.S. aggression. But what about when the aggressor is someone else?