Should Humans Communicate with Aliens?
For years, Shane Harris of The Washington Post has been fascinated with the search for extraterrestrial life in the universe. But that search raises a profound question: Should we try to communicate w...
1 Aug 201854min
Talking Brexit
The British government is falling apart, Brexit talks are on the rocks, and into the maelstrom walks Donald Trump to walk in front of the Queen after having tea with her. It's been a bad period in the...
28 Jul 201841min
Kennedy, Kavanaugh, and the Future of National Security Before the Supreme Court
Justice Kennedy's resignation and the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his replacement promises to usher in a new era of the U.S. Supreme Court, not least in the areas of foreign relations and n...
25 Jul 201856min
Jennifer Hillman and Clark Packard on Trade and National Security, Part Deux
The Trump administration has taken an aggressive stance on U.S. trade relations, opting for bilateral negotiations, and in many cases, eschewing the multilateral trade order. The administration is col...
21 Jul 201857min
Julia Ioffe and Ian Bremmer on the Trump-Putin Summit
On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Helsinki for their first one-on-one summit, where the U.S. president said that he trusted the Russian president's den...
18 Jul 201840min
Emergency Edition: GRUccifer 2.0 Indictment!
On Friday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers for their role in the theft and dissemination of documents from the DNC, the DCCC and the Clinton campaign during th...
14 Jul 201859min
#AbolishICE?
#AbolishICE is the hashtag that has proliferated all over Twitter. Anger over the family separation policy of the Trump administration has many people doubting whether the agency that does interior im...
11 Jul 201840min
Radek Sikorski on the Week's Events in Poland
It's been a bad week for Polish democracy, with the government removing a bunch of judges from the country's Supreme Court in order to replace them with party loyalists. In response, protestors took t...
7 Jul 201821min
