From personal experience she grasps how domestic political divisions can undermine American power abroad
Focusing on the environment and technology can lay the ground for handling non-military as well as military challenges
We will need better guides to teach us how to navigate a world built on the patterns we didn’t know we had created
Jacinda Ardern’s frank resignation is as groundbreaking as her premiership, where she encouraged new metrics
The new National Security Strategy is right to insist issues like climate change are as important as geopolitical threats
Admitting Finland and Sweden would only broaden the divide between Russia and its neighbours
That recognition should lie at the core of any American effort to champion democratic principles abroad
It is time to rethink national security and the purpose of foreign policy
The world has changed while America was distracted under Donald Trump
Many rightly fear that Joe Biden’s more internationalist US will prove only a passing phase
There will be radical change from Trump’s approach, but more in style than in substance
We should stop focusing on ourselves and aim for something larger
‘Phase three’ of life can also be phase free, a time to take risks and upset apple carts
Digital space does not recognise the elaborate distinctions of protocol that governments have built
Candidates for the presidential nomination are emphasising planetary over geopolitical threats
The House Speaker is skilfully negotiating Democratic tensions over impeachment
Female candidates still follow rules that their male competitors gleefully ignore
Those who espouse a new political middle ground are overwhelmingly affluent white men
Moderates and progressives disagree on the nature and scope of American leadership
Approval of voting reform initiatives springs from the changing nature of local power
What matters is the strength to stand up to peer pressure and forge a path of equality
The organisation must focus more on people and emphasise its pledge for human rights
We should take their vision of unfettered state sovereignty seriously
AT&T and Comcast are trying to go big when they should aim for nimble
Success in mobilising public opinion against dishonest leaders offers lessons
