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Regulate Social-Media Companies
They have proven unwilling to change algorithms and data-collection policies that stoke extremism and undermine national security.
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How Biden Can Reduce the Danger of Nuclear War
The world needs more sanity and justice. Here are four steps to help avoid destroying the world.
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Three Steps to Fight Online Disinformation and Extremism
The long-term solution recommended by experts is rarely discussed by pundits and politicians.
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Iran Will Still be a Slog
We can expect Tehran to use three tactics to seek advantage in negotiations.
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Purity Tested, Senators Confirm General Austin for SecDef
With little actual opposition in the end, members voted for the waiver and the man.
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How to Fight Domestic Extremism and Win Public Trust
After years of partisan politicization, national security leaders and workers need to be clear about how they'll keep us safe from each other.
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Joe Biden Has a Europe Problem
The new president has a daunting list of foreign-policy challenges. Among the biggest will be managing a longtime ally.
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Advice for the Next Secretary of Defense
Our most serious threats are not external. Biden’s team also must address the bitter polarization of our politics, which has divided our country and global institutions.
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Gaslighting Can’t Obscure Trump’s Iran Failures
The Biden administration must make a firm break from Trump’s approach and restore the status quo ante.
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America’s Far Right Isn’t Authoritarian. It’s Anti-Statist.
The distinction makes a difference in understanding and confronting the threat.
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Pentagon Won’t Throw Traditional Farewell Ceremony for Trump
It’s a shame, and a missed opportunity — not despite recent events but because of them.
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We Need to Know Who Is Getting Vaccinated
The federal government must release demographic data about vaccine recipients.
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Kim Jong-un’s Shot Across Biden’s Bow
Last year was relatively quiet in U.S.-North Korean relations. That’s likely to change.
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Mr. Vice President, Now Is the Time
Mike Pence must unify the nation. He must tell the truth about the election results to the millions who voted for him on the same ballot as Trump.
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Biden Should Extend New START — and By the Full Five Years
Some have suggested the new president withhold a full extension of the nuclear-arms treaty in search of leverage for a new one.
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Americans Were Worried About the Wrong Threat
Despite considerable hype about foreign interference, the greatest danger to American democracy is domestic.
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The Wrong Way to Gauge Readiness
Too much focus on mission capable rates misses the larger and more important picture.
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Superspreader Down: How Trump’s Exile from Social Media Alters the Future of Politics, Security, and Public Health
Platform companies have finally come to grips with their roles as owners of battlefields.
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What Trump and His Mob Taught the World About America
The allure of democracy was the nation’s best asset abroad, but the president squandered it by inciting political violence.
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How Will Biden’s Pentagon Handle Extreme Right-Wing Media?
The Capitol riot was just the latest tell for propaganda outlets masquerading as newsrooms.
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