U.S. Congress

Lawmakers push the U.S. State Department to overcome its “bunker mentality,” but in Ukraine, that’s complicated.

A landmark report on human rights in China was delayed six months over a behind-the-scenes impasse on LGBTQ rights.

Officials in Washington say no to independence but make room for closer ties.

A slew of new measures are fundamentally transforming economic relations.

U.S. Senate strikes down sanctions bill on a Russian pipeline project that became a political lightning rod in Washington.

Republicans are looking to capitalize on the White House’s perceived missteps in Afghanistan and Ukraine.

The U.S. president is reneging on his campaign promises in an effort to appease Riyadh. A bipartisan team of lawmakers can stop him.

Career diplomats are concerned that the State Department won’t institute changes to address bullying or mismanagement in the future.

Beijing warned U.S. lawmakers the trip would erode the “One China” status quo.

Former Trump officials are grooming a new generation of Senate candidates to make the hard-line approach to China the GOP’s default.

Washington isn’t behaving like a competent great power due to partisan gridlock, recycling of discredited ideas, and a lack of focus on real threats.

Moderates want to give U.S. President Joe Biden more war powers to stave off a Chinese invasion. Progressives don’t agree.

The war on terror is a constitutional aberration. The U.S. legislature must reclaim its war powers from an overempowered executive branch.

Republican lawmakers grilled Biden’s top diplomat over the end to the United States’ Afghan war.

Sen. Ted Cruz wages an unprecedented partisan fight with the U.S. president over a Russian pipeline project, hobbling the administration’s foreign policy.

U.S. international security cooperation urgently needs an overhaul by Congress.

The ongoing detention of the children of a key U.S. counterterrorism partner is just the latest irritant in U.S.-Saudi relations.

Senators quietly press U.S. President Joe Biden to reassess U.S.-Nigeria relations amid human rights concerns.