Reagan

The late 41st U.S. president’s prudence was once derided as the wimp factor, but it has aged well.

If Washington wants to pressure Tehran, the White House should stop alienating allies, empowering hard-liners, and harming regular Iranians.

A new diplomatic history argues that the United States, Egypt, and Israel prevented a Palestinian state from emerging. But leaders such as Yasser Arafat bear much of the blame.

Republicans smothered the Iran-Contra affair. The same might happen with Trump and Russia.

The United States needs its allies if it wants to make a deal with North Korea.

Nixon and Reagan managed to negotiate with Mao and Gorbachev because they had personal chemistry, common goals, and control of their domestic politics.

It's hard to be powerful when nobody believes a word you say.

The secretary of state has held on for a year, but it’s too late for his tenure to end well.

Reagan intervened to rescue Poland from authoritarianism. Trump should do the same thing.

Imagination and fiction are essential elements of strategy.

Donald Trump Jr.’s actions might rise to the level of criminal conspiracy against the republic, but it probably wouldn't even matter.

Trump is like Reagan in the same way that a card table is like a racehorse: They have the same number of legs, but after that the similarities are sparse.

The president-elect’s economic plan is a ticket to debtor’s prison.

When Trump needed the numbers to back his much-lambasted anti-Muslim immigration proposal, he knew who to turn to: long-time conservative activist Frank Gaffney.

Watching Hillary Clinton’s grueling Benghazi testimony, it’s amazing how far the United States has come in facing — and fearing — threats to national security from the Middle East.

Twenty-five years after he fled to Senegal, Chad’s former dictator is on trial for allegedly overseeing the killing and torturing of thousands of his own people. Will his victims see justice?

How does Obama stack up against the GOP's favorite president?

Scott Walker’s deeply unimpressive thoughts about foreign policy make everything about crushing organized labor. Here's why even the Gipper would find that ridiculous.

Russia’s power play for Ukraine takes a page out of the Gipper’s playbook. We should have seen it coming.