From paying for people to speak in theaters as movie reels were changed to producing campaign-style ads about the coronavirus pandemic, successive White House's have produced a troubling amount of propaganda, all on the taxpayer's dime.
Tonight Joe Biden and Donald Trump will face off for the first time since their last presidential election debate on October 22, 2020. How will the candidates do this time on the big issues threatening humanity?
A legal scholar explains how Trump could lose and stick around anyway, through a combination of disinformation, COVID, political division, and the resulting "catastrophic breakdown" of our presidential election system.
Trump’s move to withdraw from the INF is an unnecessary and self-defeating own-goal (to use the soccer term) that together with the uncertain future of the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) has brought the US-Russia arms control framework to the brink of collapse.
Trump’s charismatic and chaotic brand of leadership may have helped jump-start talks about North Korea’s nuclear program, but it is inherently dangerous.
The Trump/Twitter feud exacerbates a long-simmering conflict about the responsibility and legal authority that social media platforms and governments have to regulate hate speech and misinformation on the internet.
Donald Trump wants to break up with WHO over its alleged bungling of the pandemic response. But since their origins 150 years ago, international health regimes have been a reflection of the nations that designed them. So when the United States accuses WHO, who is really to blame?
President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to compel ventilator production by General Motors and appointed his trade adviser Peter Navarro to coordinate federal policy under the act.
Trump has said he is now a wartime president, so that history has appeal. But the expectation is misplaced. The analogy has serious limits that could misguide policy.
President Trump is now exploring the possibility of addressing the INF issue by reframing how the practice of arms control is conducted. Instead of focusing on bilateral agreements between the United States and the Russian Federation (the two countries with the largest nuclear arsenals) the President believes that we should involve more actors. Actors like China who also have deployed missiles with INF range.
The Trump administration’s 2018 Nuclear Posture review was so short on nonproliferation that a Republican congressman is proposing a new government body to address it.