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SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images Shortly after taking office, President Joe Biden committed his administrations foreign policy to the pursuit of the USs "cherished democratic values." But Biden and his team appear wedded to 20th century narratives about the world and the USs role in it, writes Andrew Bacevich, president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. You may have noticed: The Blob is back. Beneath a veneer of gender and racial diversity, the Bide...

US Air Force/R. Nial Bradshaw Pentagon weapons programs are rarely cancelled, no matter how poorly they performs, how much they go over budget, or how long they take to field. Political, economic, and cultural factors keep that trend going, and that needs to change, writes William J. Astore, a history professor and retired Air Force lieutenant colonel. Cancel culture is a common, almost viral, term in political and social discourse these days. Basically, somebody e...

PANDEMIC POLITICS-In June 1990, future South African President Nelson Mandela addressed a joint session of Congress only months after being released from 27 years in a South African apartheid prison. He reminded the political leadership of the United States that “to deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of hunger and deprivation is to dehumanize them.”  Three decades later, Congress would do well to finally heed that warning...