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…
By autumn of 1988, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev had been in power for three riveting years as general secretary of the Communist Party. He…
President Donald J. Trump’s tweet this weekend that the U.S. might terminate all trade with countries doing business with North Korea was…
People from Los Angeles and San Francisco are calling me and asking: “Should we be getting our families out of the city? Are we about to be…
The latest round of congressional sanctions against Russia garnered much attention for the message they sent to President Donald Trump: We…
The president has a long to-do list, starting with slowing down and changing his tone. He should emulate Churchill and Reagan, not Kim Jung…