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Tehran is eager to deepen its influ­ence on Kabul, the Taliban, and other Afghan actors. Iran is watch­ing close­ly as U.S. and Taliban nego­ti­ate an end to America’s oper­a­tions in [...]

When the inevitable inquiry into the gov­ern­men­t’s response to COVID-19 hap­pens, it will con­clude that signs of a coming crisis were every­where. We were warned in 2012, when the Rand [...]

Many more are quar­an­tined due to pos­si­ble expo­sure as employ­ees are on the front­lines fight­ing COVID-19 and pro­vid­ing essen­tial ser­vices. Federal employ­ees across the coun­try are [...]

Some of the president’s poor deci­sions on COVID-19, like propos­ing to reopen the nation by Easter, have been reversed. But a pres­i­den­tial deci­sion to start nuclear war cannot be. President [...]

There’s no mir­a­cle drug for stop­ping ter­ror­ism. It is con­trol­lable, but never cur­able. The United States should con­tin­ue to pursue ter­ror­ists and fight ter­ror­ism like we are now [...]

The United States has an urgent inter­est in fill­ing the global lead­er­ship void during this state­less scourge. Lost in the back­ground of the coro­n­avirus cat­a­stro­phe is the col­lapse of [...]

The Defense Department is ramp­ing up the pur­chase of cer­tain items, includ­ing ven­ti­la­tors, in response to the COVID-19 out­break. The Defense Department mod­i­fied an exist­ing [...]

Beijing is using lies to under­mine America’s stand­ing; the U.S. should fight back with sci­ence and truth. Whether we like it or not, the United States is engaged on a new bat­tle­field defined [...]

The list is meant to help gov­ern­ment deci­sion-makers make better choic­es about poli­cies and actions. The Homeland Security Department recent­ly launched and con­tin­ues to update a [...]