While the bombastic U.S.-China “trade war” has been getting the headlines, U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies have been waging a quieter battle to...
One of the assumptions that economists sometimes use to frame their models is to specify that some variables will be held constant, a concept that’s expressed...
What would the ghosts of 1918 not just the soldiers who were slaughtered in the trenches of World War I, but the statesmen who failed to make a durable peace...
A conference here to gather American business and military experts to discuss the coming revolution in artificial intelligence was a good Election-Day measure...
When President Trump issues an election-time order to send up to 15,000 troops to confront what many experts say is a nonexistent threat on the U.S.-Mexico...
From a distance, the Tree of Life Synagogue now looks like another American crime scene. Police tape blocks off the Wilkins Avenue entrance of the temple, and...
One of the most satisfying moments in any spy thriller is when the bad guy the black-hat operative who has been killing and tormenting his adversaries does...
President Donald Trump seems convinced that he has found the formula for success in foreign policy: Bully your adversaries, sanction them, squeeze them and...
Reading Greg Miller’s gripping new account of President Trump’s entanglement in the Russia investigation, it’s striking just how many of the president’s...
America watched three searing versions of reality television this week. They all demonstrated that under the glare of the lights and the stress of...
After the big bang of the Singapore summit in June, with its showy but vague North Korean commitment to denuclearization, many analysts doubted that the deal...
The public conversation this past week was dominated by a book about a man who is obsessed with winning, President Donald Trump. Too little attention was...
Only a man who is deeply worried about his own strength would talk as much as Donald Trump does about the danger of appearing weak.That’s my biggest takeaway...
This is indeed “Crazytown,” as a quote from Bob Woodward’s new book describes it, and we are watching a “nervous breakdown.” The problem is that it afflicts...
Imagine a bully who’s pounding your head against a wall. When you complain that it hurts and threaten to punch back, he offers to sign an international...
As the Syrian tragedy lurches toward a bloody final showdown in Idlib province, the Trump administration is struggling to check Russia and the Syrian regime...
The best thing that can be said about President Donald Trump’s latest trade initiative is that it moves the U.S. back toward the kind of agreements Trump...
John McCain’s death offers a moment to think about the insurgency in the GOP that vexed him during his final decade as a politician, and that produced...
When Mike Pompeo became secretary of state on May 1, he advised his new colleagues at Foggy Bottom: “I want the State Department to get its swagger back.”...
Will the Pentagon, with its 30-year planning cycle for building ships, still be launching aircraft carriers in 2048 – even though they’re highly vulnerable to...
Koreans have a saying that helps explain the recent upbeat exchanges between Washington, Seoul and Pyongyang: “Say pretty things to hear pretty things.”...
Heading toward the midterm elections, President Trump is playing the politics of division more recklessly than ever. But there’s a movement taking root in...
Looking at Russia’s competing spy services, their overlapping operations against the U.S. and their sometimes careless tradecraft, some CIA veterans are...
For the last 18 months, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and other top national-security officials have mostly kept their heads down in public as they tried to...
The American intelligence community has never faced a problem quite like President Donald Trump – a commander in chief who is suspected by a growing number of...