One way to think about the recent financial turmoil that has taken place in China is to consider it a parenting dispute between “Xi Dada” and “Yang Ma” –...
Turkey’s political tensions were sharply evident Thursday, as the country’s leading Kurdish politician accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of “supporting...
Escapism has a special lure this summer, if you’re saturated with ISIS atrocities, the Iran nuclear deal and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. As relief...
Can an American president make big, historic changes in the country’s direction with a relatively narrow base of political support? That was the challenge...
The United States and its allies, after several years of missteps, finally seem to be framing a strategy for combating ISIS militarily in Syria, even as they...
“He acknowledged the truth, he gives [allegiance], the order has been given, his heart beats, he accepts, butterflies kick in ... The target is given,...
The Greek financial crisis has eased – for now. But many skeptics share the worry of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble that the bailout plan may not...
The shrill Republican attacks on the Iran nuclear deal are an embarrassment. Most global leaders share President Barack Obama’s view that the agreement is...
As the Iran nuclear talks neared the endgame, some observers worried that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, in their eagerness for a...
When the financial details are stripped away, the Greek bailout deal reached early Monday is really a reassertion of the core idea of postwar Europe – which...
Reporting about ISIS inevitably means watching their videos, but that’s not something I would wish on anyone. The group has created a public theater of death...
The Greek financial nightmare is a reminder of why countries benefit from having their own currencies. In the old days, a flexible drachma could have been...
Many commentators have seen the Greek financial crisis as an exercise in stupidity. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, for example, likened it last week...
After the Supreme Court’s historic 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Southern politicians adopted a strategy that became known as “massive...
Iran enters the endgame of the nuclear talks with what amount to two negotiating positions – the parameters reportedly endorsed in April at Lausanne by...
“The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating. ... Sectarian conflict is the principal challenge to stability.” That’s from the opening page of the 2006...
The two dynastic candidates told compelling stories recently about why they should be president, but there has been one big difference: Jeb Bush has taken the...
In November 2012, Jeh Johnson, who was then the Pentagon’s general counsel, let himself speculate in a speech about Al-Qaeda, “How will this conflict end?” He...
The Obama administration and ISIS both issued new manifestos for the battle in Iraq this week. Guess which one is more forceful?The U.S. plan is to add 450...
The march of authoritarianism around the world has had different names over the past decade: “Neo-Ottomanism,” “Putinism,” “the Beijing Consensus.” The shared...
The regime of President Bashar Assad in Syria is facing what U.S. experts say is the most intense pressure since the early days of the four-year civil war....
When South Korean President Park Geun-hye visited Washington two years ago, she spoke of “Asia’s paradox” – a disconnect between the region’s growing economic...
The unexpected fall of Ramadi to ISIS this month is the latest sign of a basic intelligence problem: The U.S. doesn’t know enough about its jihadi adversaries...
Secretaries of state have had private contacts since the job was created, so it’s a mistake to get too indignant about Hillary Clinton’s email exchanges about...
Hillary Clinton’s move to the left on trade and other issues is a reminder of the growing power of activists on the wings in presidential nominating politics...