The US Is Losing the Plot on India (Bill Drexel, National Interest) Secondary issues risk derailing the United States’ approach to India and its opportunity to counterbalance Chinese power in Asia.

I spent 11 years in the Guard & Reserve (April 1981-May 1992), so I definitely have some thoughts on President Trump’s increasing politically motivated misuse of National Guard ( NG) personnel for a “ ...

To Get Peace in Ukraine, Trump Should Play the Nuclear Card (Matthew Kroenig, Foreign Policy) The White House needs to learn from the Kremlin’s success with nuclear blackmail.

By Mr. Trump’s account, Mr. Putin behind closed doors also endorsed the lie that Mr. Trump actually won the 2020 election, only to have it stolen by Democrats. — Peter Baker, New York Times, 17 August ...

Kari Lake’s Attempt to Deport Her Own Employees (Toluse Olorunnipa, The Atlantic) “Their time here is up,” she said of J-1 visa holders who worked for Voice of America.

The First Federal Cybersecurity Disaster of Trump 2.0 Has Arrived (Lily Hay Newman, Wired) The breach of the US Courts records system came to light more than a month after the attack was discovered.

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights (Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic) State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Is Becoming a Bubble (Nancy A. Youssef, The Atlantic) An already insular Defense Department is sealing itself off from outside thinkers. Last month, a group of seven U.S.

Inside immigration courts around the country, immigrants who crossed the border illegally and were caught and released are required to appear before a judge for a preliminary hearing. But in a new ...

· Will Trump’s India Tariffs Affect a Critical U.S. Partnership?

For China, the Ukraine War Is a Laboratory (David Petraeus and Clara Kaluderovic, National Interest) Beijing is using the Russia-Ukraine War as a testing ground to prepare for a showdown with the ...

Trump’s Actions Are Pushing Thousands of Experts to Flee Government (Hannah Natanson, Dan Diamond, Rachel Siegel, Jacob Bogage and Ian Duncan, Washington Post) The U.S.DOGE Service’s push for early ...