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Niall Ferguson: The Arrogance of Trump’s Foreign-Policy Critics
Trump’s full-time haters are incapable of considering the possibility that, like any U.S. administration, this one might get some things wrong and some…
January 25, 2026
Niall Ferguson
Trump Heads to Davos to Take Greenland
Threatened with a catastrophic trade war, Europe is likely to blink.
January 20, 2026
Kenneth Rogoff
Trump Can’t Win Greenland Without Losing Europe
The European right is winning elections by promising sovereignty and dignity. Trump’s Greenland gambit threatens both.
January 20, 2026
Rod Dreher
Trump’s Dangerous Greenland Game
The president’s petulance has created a diplomatic crisis—and risks undermining his foreign policy achievements.
January 19, 2026
The Editors
America’s Most Righteous War Produced Its Best Anti-War Novel
Why decorated veteran Elliot Ackerman loves ‘Catch-22.’
January 15, 2026
Shilo Brooks
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Niall Ferguson: What Happens Next in Iran Will Change the Middle East Forever
There are costs to intervention in Iran—and enormous costs to inaction.
January 15, 2026
Coleman Hughes
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This Week in American History: Roosevelt’s Big Stick
Before the Donroe Doctrine, there was the Roosevelt Corollary: If the United States didn’t want European powers intervening in Latin America, it would…
January 14, 2026
Jonathan Horn
Niall Ferguson: The Myth of Revolution in Iran
The West wants a revolution in Iran. What’s actually happening is a counterrevolution—and history shows those are usually doomed to fail.
January 13, 2026
Niall Ferguson
Why 2026 Could Prove as Important as 1989
The year the Berlin Wall came down marked the end of one epoch and the start of another. This year could do the same.
January 13, 2026
Matt Pottinger
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Roy Eakin
Will the Iranian Regime Fall?
Iran’s security forces have killed at least 2,000 protesters in a brutal crackdown. Can the protesters prevail—and will it take U.S. military…
January 12, 2026
Rafaela Siewert
1HR 11M
The Problem with Trump’s Venezuela Plan
The president is relying on the current regime to guide a transition to a Venezuela that is a free, democratic, prosperous, capitalist U.S. ally. That’s…
January 11, 2026
Elliott Abrams
How Rubio Won
Marco doesn’t seem so little anymore.
January 6, 2026
Eli Lake
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