Foreign Policy

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. 

The U.S. military has been fighting in Afghanistan since 2001.

The ex-president of Georgia, stripped of both Georgian and Ukrainian citizenship, is sitting in a relative’s apartment in the Bronx, plotting his next move.

As the ultra-Orthodox pass new measures governing prayer at the Western Wall and religious conversion, a rift is growing between Israel and American Jews.

  With Adam Rawnsley Scaramucci. Just because. Flynn ally, Iran hawk, ousted from NSC. National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster has removed Derek Harvey, the top Middle East advisor on the National Security Council, from his post Thursday, a source with knowledge of the personnel move told Kate Brannen, FP contributor and Just Security ...

The Academy Award-winning actor is in hot water for lavishing praise on the government of Kazakhstan.