Severe Mental Illness: Are Policies Helping or Hurting Those in Need?
The dangers and plight of those with severe mental illness typically grab headline attention after tragedies like mass shootings. As time passes, however, attention fades as the public struggles to de...
11 Touko 20181h 8min
The Future of Hong Kong
Hong Kong is an issue of growing concern in Washington. The State Department’s most recent human rights report singles out the “central PRC government’s encroachment on the SAR’s autonomy” among the m...
10 Touko 20181h 34min
Nicaragua at an Inflection Point
Over the last two weeks, massive anti-government protests have engulfed many parts of Nicaragua. Hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans, many of them students, took to the streets to initially demonstra...
9 Touko 201839min
The Future of Extremism after the Fall of ISIS
Despite the collapse of the “so-called ‘Caliphate’” in Iraq and Syria, Islamist extremist movements are continuing to gain momentum. ISIS remains formidable. The group retains a significant physical p...
8 Touko 201852min
The Case for Reforming Farm Subsidies
The House Agriculture Committee recently reported out its 2018 Farm Bill. Expected on the House floor this month, the current legislation continues the out of control farm handout system that has been...
8 Touko 201856min
On Grand Strategy
John Lewis Gaddis, distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now, in On Grand S...
7 Touko 20181h 18min
The New India-U.S. Partnership in the Indo-Pacific: Peace, Prosperity and Security
Over the years, India earned the epithet of a reluctant power in Asia – exuberant in its aspirations, yet guarded in its strategy. However, as the challenges in its immediate neighborhood and beyond c...
3 Touko 20181h 28min
Will the Iran Nuclear Agreement Be Ended or Mended?
President Trump declared in January that he would not waive nuclear sanctions again for Iran unless the flawed 2015 nuclear agreement is fixed by addressing three major issues: the sunset of key restr...
3 Touko 20181h 12min
