In the rebalancing of Sino-American relations that’s underway, the usual roles are reversed: China’s normally deft President Xi Jinping appears to have badly...
Is Julian Assange a journalist? The Justice Department sidestepped that question in its indictment of Assange. But his case is still certain to stir a debate...
The Trump administration’s “maximum pressure campaign” against Iran assumes that economic sanctions are weakening the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and...
You can’t find many success stories in America’s sour, sullen relationship with Egypt over the past decade. Mostly it’s been a tale of mutual suspicion,...
What do you say to a class of Egyptian journalism students who know that the price of speaking too freely telling truths that the government doesn’t like...
It has been nearly six months since Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered inside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, but the aftershocks continue. The...
Russian claims this week that they’ve been exonerated by Robert Mueller’s final report make my skin crawl. But they highlight the critical question of how the...
When the debris settles after special counsel Robert Mueller completes his investigation into Russian hacking of the 2016 presidential election, America will...
When General Motors idled its auto plant in Lordstown, Ohio, this month, U.S. President Donald Trump adopted a familiar strategy: He issued a nasty string of...
Sen. Mark Warner is all for defense modernization. But just don’t touch those aircraft carriers, six of which are based in Norfolk.The Virginia Democrat had...
Dick Cheney, the former vice president, made just about the nastiest crack a Republican could offer about President Donald Trump’s foreign policy when he said...
For a scary snapshot of what a “post-American” world looks like, consider the rupture that has been developing through three administrations in the...
Robert Mueller’s final report should present Congress with a clean choice: Either the facts warrant impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump, or they...
With the abrupt breakdown of the Hanoi summit, the diplomatic negotiations between the United States and North Korea got a reset, and that’s a good thing. If...
We were reminded of an explosive political fact this week: The investigations of President Donald Trump’s activities won’t end when special counsel Robert...
In the days after he resigned as secretary of defense in December, Jim Mattis told people he hoped to be succeeded by Patrick Shanahan, his deputy. Shanahan...
President Trump, in a rare reversal of a decision, has decided to keep “hundreds” of U.S. troops in northeast Syria to provide “campaign continuity” and...
The left wing of the Democratic Party has been getting much of the media attention since the new Congress convened, overshadowing the rise of a group of young...
Is there a way for the United States and its allies to remain in northeastern Syria, even after President Donald Trump’s pledged withdrawal of U.S. military...
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has been insisting for so long that any investigation of his personal finances would cross a “red line” that people may...
The showy first summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last June was draped in flags and bunting, but the decoration...
With little public fanfare, U.S. Cyber Command, the military’s new center for combating electronic attacks against the United States, has launched...
Iraqi President Barham Salih measured his words in a telephone interview from Baghdad Monday. He didn’t want to worsen a quarrel with President Donald Trump...
The handmaiden of peace is exhaustion. We are seeing that lesson in the killing fields of Afghanistan and Yemen. Fragile peace agreements are emerging in both...
As the age of artificial intelligence transforms warfare, the Pentagon faces a delicate problem: How does it convince employees of high-tech companies based...