List of U.S. Government articles
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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, right, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 18. (Kevin Hagen/Getty Images) Trump Has an Iran Strategy — But It Will Be Very Tough to Pull Off
The Trump administration’s game plan has a certain logic, but executing it will be the most difficult diplomatic gambit his team has attempted thus far.
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President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters at the White House on Oct. 13. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Donald Trump Needs a Good Cop on Iran
The U.S. president has the biggest bully pulpit. But Europe has all the leverage.
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The U.S. House of Representatives chamber on Dec. 8, 2008. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images) Congress Wants to Tie the Intelligence Community’s Hands for No Reason
Reforming national security law for the sake of reform is never a good idea.
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President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) America Will Always Lose Russia’s Tit-for-Tat Spy Games
In the asymmetric warfare of espionage, playing fair means Moscow wins.
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rtedjt The American Alliance With Turkey Was Built On a Myth
It's time to realize that Washington and Ankara share neither values nor interests, and that their partnership cannot return to its Cold War heyday.
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A logo of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is displayed in front of the organization headquarters on September 14, 2011. AFP PHOTO MIGUEL MEDINA (Photo credit should read MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. to Pull Out of UNESCO, Again
Worried about past dues and what it calls an anti-Israel bias, Washington is bailing on the group it helped found.
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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, U.S. President Donald Trump, and others before a meeting on U.N. reform at the U.N. headquarters in New York City on Sept. 18, 2017. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) Trump’s Empty North Korea Threats Will Lead to Humiliation or War
Either Trump will back down and once again eat his words, or he will strike North Korea, with consequences almost too great to contemplate.
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North (top) and South (bottom) Korean border posts on Aug. 21, 2015. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP/Getty Images) Seven Reasons Why Putting U.S. Nukes Back in South Korea Is a Terrible Idea
Here are seven reasons why the United States should not seek to deploy nuclear weapons in the Korean Peninsula.
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Donald Trump speaks at a rally against the Iran nuclear deal on Sept. 9, 2015. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images) If Trump Won’t Certify the Nuke Deal, He Should Do This Instead
There is a way for the administration to address the agreement’s shortcomings while sustaining its gains.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel greets US President Donald Trump prior to the start of the first working session of the G20 meeting in Hamburg, northern Germany, on July 7. Leaders of the world's top economies will gather from July 7 to 8, 2017 in Germany for likely the stormiest G20 summit in years, with disagreements ranging from wars to climate change and global trade. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / IAN LANGSDON (Photo credit should read IAN LANGSDON/AFP/Getty Images) Book Talk: Spy Schools
Exploring the dark relationship between intelligence services and academia.
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President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wait for a meeting in the White House June 30, 2017. Trump, Stung by ‘Moron’ Moniker, Challenges Tillerson to Compare IQs
Just your average Tuesday in the Trump administration.
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President Donald Trump speaks on the North Korean threat at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 19, 2017. Trump Touts Military Option for North Korea That Generals Warn Would Be ‘Horrific’
The foreign policy in Trump’s Twitter feed is competing with the foreign policy of the U.S. government.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan deliver joint statements at the White House on May 16, 2017. Turkey Digs in Heels Over Diplomatic Fight With U.S.
Both sides have their diplomatic daggers drawn.
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Qatari and Taliban officials speak during a joint press conference at the opening the Taliban political office in Doha, Qatar, in 2013. Expelling the Taliban From Qatar Would Be a Grave Mistake
There's absolutely no reason to close down the path to peace in Afghanistan.
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Police and demonstrators during protests in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 (Joe Raedle/Getty Images). The FBI’s New U.S. Terrorist Threat: ‘Black Identity Extremists’
Law enforcement calls it a violent movement. Critics call it racist.
