List of U.S. Government articles
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) seal is displayed in the lobby of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on August 14, 2008. (Getty/AFP/Saul Loeb) Financier Is Top Choice to Advise President on Intelligence Matters
Trump has finally picked members for a key intelligence advisory board, and billionaire Stephen Feinberg is slated to head it.
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The State Department headquarters in Washington on Sept. 12, 2012. U.S. Government Faces Critical ‘Brain Drain’ of Sanctions Experts
Departure of top sanctions official prompts new concerns.
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Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, addresses crowds remotely at a rally in Beirut on Dec. 11, 2017. (AFP/Getty Images) It’s Time for the Justice Department to Hold Hezbollah Accountable
The U.S. government must answer tough questions about its efforts to stop the group’s drug trafficking activities.
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U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis, left, and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence listen as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press before a meeting at the Pentagon on Jan. 18, in Washington. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) Pence’s Visit to the Middle East Serves No Purpose
The vice president should stay home rather than inflame an already bad situation.
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Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and ranking member Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) of the Senate Intelligence Committee listen to testimony from Intelligence officials in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on June 7, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Lawmakers Demand Investigation Into Lack of Whistleblower Protections for Spies
Senate leaders across party lines are concerned intelligence community watchdogs are failing to protect whistleblowers.
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A Palestinian child carries UNRWA food donations outside a U.N. food distribution center in Gaza City on Jan. 15, 2018. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Withholds Millions of Dollars in Promised Palestinian Food Aid
The U.N. relief agency has been left with millions in unpaid bills.
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the auditorium of Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Jan. 16. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Trump Doesn’t Believe in His Own Foreign Policy. Does That Matter?
The president's policies often deviate from his dangerous preferences. But these divergences present their own problems.
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Sen. Patrick Leahy greets Sen. Marco Rubio on his first day back in Congress after suspending his presidential campaign, in Washington on March 17, 2016. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) Senators Press Justice Department on Chinese State Media Outlets Registering as Foreign Agents
If Russian outlets have to file, lawmakers ask, why not Chinese ones?
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U.S. President Donald Trump during the college football national championship game on Jan. 8 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) Last Week Was a Degrading Embarrassment. And a Microcosm of Trump.
It was a Category 5 blizzard of ignorance, crudeness, and recklessness.
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(USAF via AP/Corbis via Getty Images/AFP/Foreign Policy illustration) Edward Lansdale and America’s Vietnam Demons
A new book explores a legendary advisor who may have had the secret to success in Vietnam — and in winning today’s forever war.
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The International Space Station is in orbit around the earth on December 14, 2006. (NASA/Getty) Shake-Up at Pentagon Intelligence Agency Sparks Concern
The director of the agency responsible for analyzing satellite imagery says he wants to modernize the work. Some employees fear they’re being replaced by artificial intelligence.
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Sen. Bob Corker (left) and Sen. Ben Cardin prepare to listen to testimony at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the U.S.-Russia relationship, on Feb. 9, 2017. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) Republicans Are AWOL on Russian Election Meddling
The GOP's absence from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's report on Russian interference is sad and abnormal.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, in March 2014. (Hannah Peters/Getty Images) Senate Report Outlines Playbook to Prevent Future Russian Election Meddling
Conspicuously absent from the report, however, is Republican buy-in.
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Iranian students scuffle with police at the University of Tehran during a demonstration on Dec. 30, 2017.(Stringer/AFP/Getty Images) Trump’s Disingenuous Support for Iranian Protestors Has Backfired
A selective approach to human rights is even more harmful than “America first.”
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A group of men stand before an ice sculpture of a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile at an ice sculpture festival in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Dec. 31, 2017. (Kim Won-Jin/AFP/Getty Images) ‘Much Bigger’ Buttons Have Nothing to Do With Deterrence
Trump doesn’t understand how armed diplomacy works.
