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Why Public Administration?

Why Public Administration?

Our professional bureaucracy is a bulwark against the potential incompetence and corruption of elected officials. Francis Fukuyama's latest.

Francis Fukuyama
Polish and Czech Foreign Ministers Weigh In: More NATO Now!

Polish and Czech Foreign Ministers Weigh In: More NATO Now!

Radosław Sikorski and Jan Lipavský argue Putin's ambition extends far beyond Ukraine.

Jan Lipavský, Radosław Sikorski
America's Military Recruitment Crisis

America's Military Recruitment Crisis

Beyond generational differences and "marketing problems," the U.S. military's recruitment crisis may just be self-inflicted.

Rebecca Burgess
Glad to the Brink of Fear
Books

Glad to the Brink of Fear

A new biography reveals how Ralph Waldo Emerson gave Americans a vocabulary to understand themselves in an era even more tempestuous than our own.

Nicole Penn
Cold War Spies and Authoritarian Lies

Cold War Spies and Authoritarian Lies

All nations spy just as all governments lie. But dictatorships are different. And free societies, with their goodwill and naiveté, are a field day for adversaries.

Jeffrey Gedmin
Seeking Authority Rather Than Authoritarians

Seeking Authority Rather Than Authoritarians

Proceduralism is crippling the U.S. government, but both Democrats and Republicans are fearful of the solution. Francis Fukuyama's latest.

Francis Fukuyama
Letting Leaders Lead

Letting Leaders Lead

America is suffering from a failure of democratic authority–the solution is to re-empower Americans to take responsibility.

Philip K. Howard
Nail-biting in Europe

Nail-biting in Europe

As November elections come into view, Europeans are staring down the barrel of an unreliable U.S. ally.

Adam Garfinkle