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• August 12, 2026 Trump Shuts Down Anti-Corruption Tool August 12, 2026 - In response to the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issuing a final rule that permanently…
• July 31, 2026 Support Schumer’s Anti-Corruption Bill; Reverse the Corrosion of American Politics July 31, 2026 - In response to Sen. Schumer's announcement of new legislation to create an Anti-Corruption Bureau, the Center for International Policy…
• July 27, 2026 Congress Can Still Act To Prevent Atrocities in Sudan Three years in, Sudan’s civil war remains one of the world’s most pressing humanitarian crises, killing an estimated 150,000 people and forcibly…
• July 23, 2026 The True Cost of the U.S. Military in South Korea Since the 1953 armistice that stopped active fighting in the Korean War, the U.S. military has maintained dozens of military bases and…
• July 20, 2026 The U.S.-Iran War Cannot End Without U.S. Pressure on Israel in Lebanon When the United States and Iran published the initial Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) meant to halt the months-long war initiated by the…
• July 8, 2026 The Politics of Ayatollah Khamenei’s Funeral A Defining Political Ritual The funeral of Ayatollah Khamenei is the Islamic Republic’s biggest political ritual since the funeral of Ayatollah Khomeini…
• July 8, 2026 Recommit to Restraint in U.S. Cluster Munitions Policy  By Mina Nur Basmaci and John Ramming Chappell When Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command, condemned Iran’s use of cluster…
• July 2, 2026 Beyond Maximalism: Reimagining U.S. Strategy Toward Iran Through Systems Thinking The outcome of the U.S.-Iran war launched in February 2026 "exposed a deeper failure of systems thinking in U.S. strategy toward Iran…
• July 2, 2026 The War on Terror Built the Foundation for Trump’s Violence By Yumna Rizvi and Elizabeth Beavers On June 21, the U.S. military struck a speedboat in the Caribbean, killing at least two…
• June 25, 2026 The limits of military power and the promise of diplomacy with Iran The humiliating strategic defeat of the United States in Iran is the predictable consequence of the decision to use force and the…