Niall Ferguson, Columnist

Bipartisanship Is Dead. Except on China.

Framing immigration, energy policy and other issues as national security imperatives could break through Washington gridlock.

November 13, 2022 at 5:00 AM UTC

By Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the author, most recently, of “Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe.” He is a columnist for The Free Press.

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