With Moscow Pressing Its Advantage, Kyiv Should Trade Land for Peace; The Era of Neutral Enforcement Is Over; The Blunder That Will Imperil Any Middle East Peace
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Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, February 2026

Ukraine Is Losing the War

With Moscow Pressing Its Advantage, Kyiv Should Trade Land for Peace

By Michael C. Desch

 

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Watching a White House press briefing at the New York Stock Exchange, February 2026

How Washington Is Weaponizing Anticorruption Law

The Era of Neutral Enforcement Is Over

By Lorenzo Crippa, Edmund J. Malesky, and Lucio Picci

 
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to deliver the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 24, 2026.

America the Predatory Hegemon

A Conversation With Stephen M. Walt

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Israeli troops in Hebron, the West Bank, January 2026

Israel Is Quietly Annexing the West Bank

The Blunder That Will Imperil Any Middle East Peace 

By Shira Efron

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