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American Democracy is an Easy Target

Americans have become paranoid about foreign cyberattacks on their political system, but they have nobody but themselves to blame.

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The Weaponized World Economy: Cover story for Foreign Affairs

August 22, 2025 Foreign Affairs pin with Abraham Newman
When Washington announced a “framework deal” with China in June, it marked a silent shifting of gears in the global political economy. This was not the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s imagined epoch of “liberation” under unilateral American greatness or a return to the Biden administration’s dream of managed great-power rivalry. Instead, it was ...
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The U.S. Is the Only Sanctions Superpower. It Must Use That Power Wisely. – with Abraham Newman

March 22, 2022 featured New York Times pin
For years, many believed that a world of global economic networks and interdependence — countries intimately connected via supply chains and finances — made war obsolete. That is part of the reason Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was so shocking. But the international economy itself has turned into a battlefield. The conventional war in Ukraine has ...
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