What’s behind Trump’s decision to cut U.S. troops in Germany?
Jul 31, 2020
President Trump announced that he is relocating 12,000 U.S. troops from Germany, a third of U.S. forces there. What's behind this decision? Does it make strategic sense? Will it help or harm NATO's deterrence capabilities? And while President Trump has criticized Germany (and other NATO allies) for not yet meeting...
What's in Biden's $2 trillion climate plan?
Jul 24, 2020
The size and scope of Joe Biden's $2 trillion climate plan is "unprecedented historically," Brookings Associate Fellow Joe Kane argues. While the full details, including funding, of many of the proposals are still forthcoming, Kane lays out the expansive range of priorities in the plan, from physical and...
How is China’s new national security law affecting Hong Kong?
Jul 20, 2020
China's national security law for Hong Kong, enacted suddenly before midnight on June 30, is already chilling the media environment there and putting Hong Kong's customary high degree of autonomy under threat, says Brookings Visiting Fellow Jamie Horsley. However, Horsley cautions the U.S. against too broadly stripping...