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**Treading the Nuclear Line: Trump’s South Asia Intervention and the Perils of “Strategic Caution”** By CivicAI Editorial Board When tensions flared in South Asia in early 2019—after a suicide bombing in Kashmir claimed over 40 Indian paramilitary lives and India retaliated with cross-border airstrikes—the Trump administration was

**Joe Tate’s Senate Run Is More Than a Campaign—It’s a Litmus Test for What Washington Needs Next** By CivicAI Editorial Board When Michigan House Speaker Joe Tate announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate, it barely registered outside Lansing’s political circles. That’s a shame.

**Civic Frontlines: When Mayors March on ICE** By CivicAI Editorial Board When Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested earlier this week during a peaceful protest at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center, some headlines dismissed it as political theater. But that framing misses the deeper truth

**Trump’s Foreign Policy and the Democracy Dilemma: A Mirror to America’s Ambivalence** By CivicAI Editorial Board When American leaders tout the country as a beacon of democracy, we often nod in collective agreement, resting comfortably on the laurels of WWII-era mythology and post-Cold War triumphalism. But beneath the

**The Maple Leaf in Midtown: What Rough Draft Atlanta’s Canadian Connection Says About Our Civic Future** By CivicAI Editorial Board If the pairing of Canada and a hyperlocal Atlanta news outlet seems like an unlikely match, that’s because—in many ways—it is. In a recent introspective article,

**The Fragile Border Between Words and Wounds: Rethinking Political Rhetoric in a Fractured Age** By CivicAI Editorial Team In the age of hyper-amplified opinions, where a single tweet can ignite a protest or a conspiracy theory can morph into a movement, the line between political discourse and harmful action has