Why the Informal Alignment of U.S. Adversaries Is So Dangerous; If Iran Gets a New Deal With America, So Must Israel; Beijing’s Self-Inflicted Identity Crisis
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Beijing, September 2025

Worse Than an Axis

Why the Informal Alignment of U.S. Adversaries Is So Dangerous

By Thomas Wright

 

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Israeli and U.S. flags projecting onto walls, Jerusalem, October 2025

How to Save the U.S.-Israeli Alliance

If Iran Gets a New Deal With America, So Must Israel

By Amos Yadlin and Avner Golov

 

Who Is China?

Beijing’s Self-Inflicted Identity Crisis

By Ian Johnson

 
At the site of a school struck by U.S. missiles in Minab, Iran, May 2026

Greeted as Liberators?

How Americans Think About U.S. Military Interventions

By Janina Dill

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