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If we pull off our plan to "train and transfer" and win over some Taliban recruits by giving them a share of the government, the outcome will be a "very […]
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The country is a "formidable opponent," but the United States will remain the world's leading superpower for the foreseeable future.
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The American public’s interest in the rest of the world waxes and wanes depending on how close a crisis is to home.
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The Asian nation—with its big military, nuclear weapons, and ongoing conflict with India—has been a "dangerous state" for the U.S. for some time. We're only now starting to realize how […]
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A conversation with the editor of Foreign Affairs Magazine.
Ever since I first started going to Russia in early 1956, I have been impressed by the fact that the Russian people, generally speaking, admire the United States. For decades,even […]
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It's possible that there is a tiny, curled-up dimension in every point surrounding us, each too small for us to perceive or comprehend.
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Molecular clouds that communicate with one another may continue to have a type of intelligence in the distant future, but "these bodies that we enjoy are not going to make […]
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If one imagined and described the most logically elegant way to construct a universe, the result wouldn't resemble ours.
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Inside the Milky Way and every other galaxy there is a giant black hole at the center. Even in early times there were these types of holes, each weighing a […]
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"It is really a high density situation that we call the big bang, but there is really no explosion," says Freese. "There is no 'bang.' There is no singular point."
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A conversation with the University of Michigan theoretical astrophysicist.
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In order for Europe to pull ahead, it must overcome challenges of confidence and a graying demographic.
Will we become a couch-potato society of information consumers, or will we be empowered, motivated and active?
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Government information should be made much more freely available.
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How can we keep from destroying information that might be relevant later?
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The unfortunate side effect of information technology: it doesn’t forget, even when our society does.
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A conversation with the Director of the Information Innovation Policy Research Center at the National University of Singapore
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