Foreign Policy

Vague threats of nuclear war? Must be Tuesday!

The opposition comes as close as it ever has to removing Jacob Zuma from office.

For well over a decade, it has been increasingly difficult to find issues on which Republicans and Democrats can agree, but this is one: Since 2000, there has been a strong bipartisan consensus — in Congress and the White House — that increasing economic engagement with Africa furthers our country’s strategic, financial, political and humanitarian ...

But does the president have enough leverage to make Moscow do what’s necessary?

It's a slap at Mike Pence and Georgia itself nine years after the Russian invasion.

Attorney General tries to prove he’s not “very weak” on leaks.

The White House’s North Korea latest sanctions are benefiting from the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Who needs state-owned propaganda when the president has friends like these?

General James Mattis has accumulated perhaps one of the largest personal libraries of an active-duty military officer ever known in the modern world.

Tom note: I’d forgotten about this item, which originally ran on June 8, 2015. I am rerunning it now because it has current interest.

Top intelligence and administration officials answer questions about the 2016 presidential election.

Where life and death are at issue, responsibility and liability cannot be far behind.

The Secretary of State to scale back America's diplomatic presence at President Trump's U.N. General Assembly debut.

State no longer will hire finalists from a prestigious fellowship program. It didn’t bother to tell employees or the fellows themselves.

The way the president rolled out this decision is almost a textbook example of how not to make difficult decisions on military policy.

The White House has tried to pile pressure on Pyongyang but the regime keeps launching more advanced missiles.

Moscow tells U.S. to cut diplomatic presence in Russia and removes two diplomatic properties.

Sanctions on Russia are just the beginning.

Why slow-rolling technology R&D can help the U.S. military prevent the rise of dangerous rivals.

In the flurry of media comment on this, I did not see anyone point out that the issue of whether transgender individuals can serve in the armed forces is within the exclusive constitutional authority of the Congress.