Thomas Wright is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He served as the senior director for strategic planning at the National Security Council during the Biden administration.

The Wingman

Mark Kelly’s résumé and the goodwill he’s accrued as Gabby Giffords’s spouse have granted him a high level of admiration. Can ...
The conviction that Trump was on the brink of final collapse remained popular in some quarters for years after Farrar’s ...
Amitav Ghosh believes that climate change requires rethinking the novel. His new work of fiction fails that standard.
T he summer after the country celebrated its 200th birthday, David Hearn paddled a canoe nicknamed the Queen Mary around the ...
On July 20, 1976, Viking 1—the first successful Mars lander in history—touched down on the red planet. NASA’s Viking Program ...
Pete Hegseth wants us to watch him sweat. Videos of the secretary of defense in a T-shirt and shorts working out alongside ...
The number of people with the condition has increased rapidly in recent decades. Some researchers and clinicians worry that ...
Born in Scotland, educated in France and England, JAMES CAMERON has been a reporter for more than twenty-five years. As chief foreign correspondent for the London NEWS CHRONICLE, he was one of the ...
A few years ago, Michael Gabbett got a call from a very confused ob-gyn. A woman had come in pregnant with twins who should have been identical—they shared a placenta, meaning they must have split ...
This problem, even more than insider trading, may start to limit what Polymarket and Kalshi can offer. There are plenty of ...
The president’s decision raised the alarm among lawmakers that he was sacrificing American security and the country’s edge in ...