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What the Collapse of Afghanistan Means for America’s Future by Daniel R. DePetris The National Interest August 23, 2021 Opponents of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan are using the images of desperate Afghans seeking flights out of the Kabul airport to attack the U.S. decision to leave the decades-long civil war. Nikki Haley, the Trump administration’s former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nat..

What Is College Worth? Chester E. Finn, Jr. National Affairs No. 47. Spring 2021 College graduates earn more money and are healthier, happier, and less likely to get divorced than people who do not have such degrees. Their children have better outcomes and are more likely to go to college themselves. Simply put, a college education is the surest way to "the good life." Given that the American id..

Any effort to lean on the external threat of China as a basis for overcoming domestic divisions at home is unlikely to succeed and likely to harm U.S. interests at home and abroad. By Ryan Hass NOEMA May 20, 2021 Ryan Hass is a senior fellow and the Michael H. Armacost Chair in the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution. He is also a nonresident affiliated fellow at Yale Law School’..

E Pluribus Unum? Our national identity has always been hotly contested By Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen The American Scholar Summer 2021 June 3, 2021 The flag flown by the Union garrison at Fort Sumter during its bombardment by Confederate forces (National Park Service) American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783–1850 by Alan Taylor; Norton, 554 pp., $35 “Before the war, it..

Why Did The U.S. Enter The Korean War? Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images By Aaron Homer Grunge May 28, 2021 The Korean War has been called America's "forgotten war," as The Korean War Legacy Project describes it. Sandwiched between the generation-shaping World War II a few years earlier, and another generation-defining war, the Vietnam War, a few years later, the conflict has gotten relegated t..

American Democracy Isn’t Dead Yet, but It’s Getting There A country that cannot even agree to investigate an assault on its Capitol is in big trouble, indeed. By Susan B. Glasser New Yorker May 27, 2021 Mitch McConnell speaking at a press conference Mitch McConnell, who is delivering on his pledge to focus on blocking Joe Biden’s agenda, claimed that an investigation into the Capitol insurrectio..

Opinion: American democracy is in even worse shape than you think Opinion by Perry Bacon Jr., Columnist The Washington Post May 20, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. UTC Joe Biden so far has been an effective president, particularly in terms of managing the coronavirus vaccine rollout and making hard but necessary policy decisions such as moving to withdraw U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. But even with a terrib..

Crime Against Asians Isn’t Due to White Supremacy by Wilfred Reilly Commentary Magazine, May 2021 issue Everyone knows that there is currently an ongoing wave of white-supremacist attacks against Asian Americans—but there isn’t. Following a genuine rise in violent crimes targeting Asians in 2020, major media outlets such as CNN hav 2021 Issuee been consistently beating the drum of “pro-Trump” an..

How to Think about Nationalism Kian Hudson The National Affairs Current Issue The debate over what nationalism is, and whether it should be embraced or rejected, has in recent years become increasingly urgent. Political movements and heads of state around the world — including America's last Republican president — identify as nationalist. Voters are asked to consider nationalist approaches on ne..

Why America Can't End Its 'Forever Wars' BY WILLIAM M. ARKIN Newsweek ON 04/12/21 AT 6:00 AM EDT The American way of war actually makes it harder to end our "endless wars."STOCKTREK IMAGES/GETTY Apeace agreement with the Taliban and a May 1 deadline for American withdrawal of troops. A new pledge by President Biden to end the war. A Congressional step toward revoking the 20-year-old consent to u..