Trump’s High-Stakes Asia Tour: Resetting Power at ASEAN and APEC

The AI age is here, but is this technology truly a golden ticket for a brighter future, or a complex bubble ready to burst? Experts are divided on this topic, as AI has been proven to be a revolutionary technology that has changed the face of the business world and significantly increased our productivity...

Today, in the year 2026, we can definitively state that humanity has reached farther into the stars than ever before. This is an accomplishment that should have filled us with joy, had the world in a vise grip, as we watched this month the astronauts of Artemis II explore strange new worlds and establish the […]

Philippines Study Trip 2026 From March 14 to 21, 2026, the Johns Hopkins SAIS cohort traveled to Manila for a capstone study trip led by Professor Henrietta Levin. The trip gave students an opportunity to engage directly with high-ranking government officials, diplomats, civil society representatives, and private sector leaders, bringing classroom analysis into conversation with...

What separated progress in Venezuela from failure in Iran was never the pressure applied but the regime absorbing it. You can tell what a regime fears most by what it builds. In Venezuela, Chavismo, Hugo Chávez’s revolutionary project and the apparatus Nicolás Maduro inherited, was built to consolidate power at home. Captured courts, patronage networks, […]

In Fall 2025, I took Nuclear Proliferation in Asia with Professor James Person. One of the most memorable class meetings that semester was a guest lecture by the Stimson Center’s Jenny Town, who also conducted a newsroom-style simulation on North Korea and nuclear crisis reporting. That simulation stayed with me. It was not just another […]