Interventions that make U.S. presidents look strong tend to boost an administration’s domestic approval—even in cases in which voters doubt the value of those actions on their merits.

There’s a reason he’s able to get away with so much, because we’ve created such a powerful institution, but he’s going further than we’ve ever seen a president go.

Profits are the best metric of economic leverage because they reflect the difficulty of replacement.

They have cried wolf so often, and with such performative hysteria, that the American electorate has gone deaf.

My methodology revealed that China today is already more powerful than the Soviet Union was during the Cold War. Modern China, then, is not just a great power but a superpower.