In ditching decades of policy, the US president has chosen the wiser path. Donald Trump is right about North Korea, of course. It never…
Nation 1 is seeking to join the nuclear club. Nation 2, its enemy, would like to prevent this, and has the potential to destroy 1’s bomb-…
Until the beginning of this century, politics seemed headed towards a democratic future, as more countries adopted – in full or in part –…
The Trump administration’s newly unveiled national security strategy lists reinforcing America’s alliances as a major objective. Yet in the…
The Foreign Service, our country’s irreplaceable asset for understanding and interacting with a complex and dangerous world, is facing…
For decades, fears of energy scarcity drove American energy diplomacy. The dependence of the global economy on oil, and America’s need to…
President Donald Trump’s advisers are at pains to emphasize that Friday’s speech on Iran policy was an effort to lay out a comprehensive…
More than 90 percent of Iraq's Kurds voted to declare independence last week, bringing tensions to an even higher boil across the Middle…
Unsurprisingly, President Donald Trump hasn’t held back when speaking about the political crisis in Venezuela. Before the United Nations…
At the turn of the century, environmentalists and “Big Oil” appeared to be moving toward one another. With the world anticipating a global…