President Joe Biden made clear Thursday in his dual speeches at the State Department— his first visit to a federal agency as president— that his administration recognizes it cannot promote democracy without shoring up alliances that have frayed and being tough on authoritarian regimes.
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The country is at a moment of opportunity, Lissner said, “if the U.S. can muster the will to turn this moment of political destruction into political creation.”
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Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said that the U.S. government should take middle-class interests into consideration when crafting foreign policy, especially when it comes to trade.
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An assistant secretary of defense warns that the cost to the U.S. of complacency toward China could be “extremely high.”
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Members of the Task Force to End Extremism in Fragile States met with Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Tuesday to share the latest report on preventing extremism abroad.
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U.S. counterterrorism officials warned lawmakers Wednesday that ISIS and Al-Qaeda remain a threat to national security despite efforts to disrupt their networks.
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A joint resolution to quickly end U.S. support for the Saudi-backed forces at war in Yemen was reintroduced on Wednesday after failing to receive a vote in the Republican-controlled House last year.
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Foreign interference in U.S. elections and social media warfare are the primary threats facing Americans in 2019, the nation’s top intelligence officials told senators Tuesday at an annual hearing on “Worldwide Threats.”
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Two war monitoring groups question the accuracy of civilian death reports from the U.S.-led coalition operating in Iraq and Syria.
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Jim Webb, the former U.S. senator, secretary of the Navy and brief candidate in the Democratic presidential primary, delivered the keynote address at The American Conservative’s Nov. 15 symposium, where his outsider sensibility and skepticism of U.S. military intervention abroad found warm welcome among the foreign policy scholars and writers in attendance.
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