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Benjamin Jensen, American University School of International Service
The audacious drone assault of June 1 may have destroyed one-third of Russia’s long-range strike fleet. But the implications are potentially much bigger.
Generative AI draws from limited datasets, often reproducing errors and bias.
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The elite university sued the Trump administration after the government revoked its ability to enroll international students.
Abortion policy in the U.S. often focuses on fetal viability and fails to address the concerns of actual pregnant people.
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Women’s stories of seeking abortions later in pregnancy highlight what’s missing from the current conversation about abortion policies in the US.
The 2025 spring meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund takes place in Washington, D.C.
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Supported by UAE and the US, the self-declared autonomous Somali region has pushed back Islamists’ advances.
Venezuelan immigrants, whom the Trump White House says are members of the Tren de Aragua gang, arrive in El Salvador on March 31, 2025.
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Tazreena Sajjad, American University School of International Service
The US was a world leader in refugee resettlement. Trump stopped all that with one executive order. What does the end of refugee resettlement look like in practice?
Hello, shutdown, my old friend …
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Garret Martin, American University School of International Service
Friedrich Merz has expressed a desire to ‘strengthen Europe as quickly as possible’ in the face of a growing rift between EU countries and the Trump administration.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank building in Beijing.
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Tamar Gutner, American University School of International Service
The AIIB is a paradox: an institution connected to the rules and norms of the liberal international order, but one created by an illiberal regime.
Former Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter walks by The Reach, a major expansion of the performing arts center completed during her tenure.
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This public-private performing arts center relies on some $85 million in donations every year. Will its sudden politicization jeopardize that big source of funding?
More climate adaptation funds should target care facilities such as childcare.
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Only 4% of funds earmarked for adaptation to climate change have been targeted for healthcare, childcare and long-term care facilities for the elderly,
Migrants are apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers after crossing into Ruby, Ariz., in June 2024.
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Immigration scholars break down some of the immigration terms that are likely to become common during the Trump administration’s first months.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a white Ford F-150 pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
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Experts on politics in Canada, Germany, Chile, Belarus and the Philippines weigh in on what to expect as each country’s voters prepare to head to the ballot box.
U.S. forces patrol oil fields near Syria’s northeastern border near Turkey on Sept. 3, 2024.
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Professor of Strategic Studies at the Marine Corps University School of Advanced Warfighting; Scholar-in-Residence, American University School of International Service