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...
President Donald Trump was doing pretty well in Helsinki, really, laying out a modest but achievable agenda for improving U.S.-Russia relations. And then came...
When President Vladimir Putin sat down at the table in Helsinki Monday, he surely had in the back of his mind some intelligence worries that had nothing to do...
As the Helsinki summit approaches, President Donald Trump appears to be on the verge of acquiescing to the belligerent strategy and behavior that Moscow has...
Watching President Donald Trump’s diplomatic maneuvers – in Singapore last month and in the run-up to his meetings over the next week in Brussels and Helsinki...
The catastrophic war in Syria is nearing what could be a diplomatic endgame, as America, Russia and Israel shape a deal that would preserve power for...
President Trump has hurled so many thunderbolts recently that people may have missed the one that could have the greatest long-term impact on America’s...
The brutal war in Yemen may be moving toward a tipping point following a controversial siege of the port of Hudaida by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the...
A bright banner at NATO’s lavish new headquarters here proclaims the core conviction of the trans-Atlantic alliance: “We are together. We are strong.” But the...
U.S. President Trump boasted last weekend that his “denuclearization deal” with Kim Jong Un could “save potentially millions & millions of lives!” He even...
If you’re looking for some good news from a faraway land, here’s a tale of Armenia’s “velvet revolution,” which just deposed a corrupt, authoritarian...
Credit President Trump for seizing the diplomatic moment at the Singapore summit. But the person who most shaped this extraordinary encounter was North Korean...