Last spring and summer, The Fulcrum published a 30-part series on Project 2025. Now that Donald Trump's second term has ...

Chinese strategist Sun Tzu said fighting and conquering in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence is ...

By the time Kennan became charge d’affaires in Moscow in early 1946, the war-time alliance was fraying and Western relations ...

Peace in Europe is needed and possible. It is the basis of stability, the goal of security and a precondition for prosperity.

Palestinian journalist Rita Baroud reflects on visiting the rubble of her family home and a Ramadan that feels like anything but.

The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s ...

When European Union leaders met in Brussels on February 6th to discuss the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron ...

The Trump Administration’s hawkish attitudes to foreign powers bash with the desire to make big budget cuts for the Department of Defense.

There’s a record number of ex-SEALs on Capitol Hill. Is politics at odds with the special forces’ ethos of working in the shadows?

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College administrators are soulless careerists brimming with will to power who ram through clueless decisions, whether the ...

JD Vance is being caricatured as a Little Lord Fauntleroy in memes, and appointees like Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel are so cartoonishly male they might be beyond parody. GQ’s Vince Mancini asks ...