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Presidents have long sought to shape the federal bureaucracy. But few have challenged it as aggressively as Donald Trump. Throughout his political career, Trump has argued that unelected bureaucrats—the so-called “deep state”—exercise too much influence over government policy. In his March 4, 2025 address to Congress, he declared, “The days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are […]
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In June 2008, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Støre sat aboard a nuclear icebreaker in Murmansk, watching a football match and drinking vodka. Two years later, the two countries settled a maritime boundary dispute that had dragged on for four decades. That was Arctic geopolitics. In December 2024, an […]
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Buying furniture from IKEA often feels like a metaphor for European integration. The pieces arrive separately, the instructions are never quite as straightforward as they seem, and assembling the final product requires patience, compromise, and occasional frustration. The European Union has often been built in much the same way-not according to a single grand design, […]
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“There may be a causality. Our very strength invites challenge. Challenge incites conflict. And conflict breeds catastrophe.” -Vision, in Captain America: Civil War Who your friends are shapes who your enemies are and vice versa. NATO bears this out well. NATO is a relational web of security assistance that was necessary to defend against and […]
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We live through a strange paradox. Liberal democracy and the market economy produced the greatest expansion of prosperity in history — yet faith in both is fraying at once, pressed by authoritarianism, populism, and a sense that the economy works only for those at the top. The question behind Capitalism and Development: Steering Markets Toward […]
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“With all the bad news on climate science and climate governance lately, how do you find hope to persevere?” In the past decade, I have been asked this question with increasing frequency in my climate governance lectures. It usually comes from a disillusioned student struggling to process new developments about climate science projections or climate […]
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Every few years, hope briefly returns to the Middle East. Negotiators meet behind closed doors, world leaders speak of a historic opportunity, and commentators predict that peace may finally be within reach. Then the talks collapse, violence resumes, and another generation grows up believing that the conflict is simply irresolvable. Must it always be this […]
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Politicians are notorious promise breakers. A British prime minister vows to cut net migration to the “tens of thousands,” only to discover that EU free‑movement rules, domestic demand for migrant labor, and global shocks keep the numbers high. A US president pledges to bring back manufacturing jobs, but global supply chains and trade rules blunt […]
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