List of U.S. Government articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 GOP Sandwich Planned for Netanyahu Speech
Benjamin Netanyahu is set to be sandwiched between two Republicans during his joint address to Congress on March 3, according to a top GOP aide, creating another optics problem for the Israeli prime minister as he tries to rebut allegations that he’s participating in a partisan stunt to embarrass the White House.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Welcome to Obama Land
It seems the risk-averse leader is no more, and the world should prepare for 18 months of a bold, new president.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Nuclear Trials of Ashton Carter
The new secretary of defense-in-waiting faces some complicated decisions when it comes to the modernization of America’s nuclear triad.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Taking the Gourley challenge: I’ll tell you in one word why we lost in Afghanistan
That one word: Pakistan.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Taking the Gourley challenge (II): We lost in A’stan because we had the wrong goal
America should have aimed at restoring Afghan Good Enough rather than transforming Afghanistan into something that almost no Afghans wanted.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Don’t Expect Too Much From Obama’s National Security Strategy
These strategy documents are mostly a lot of hot air. But that doesn't mean they have to be worthless.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Defense Nominee Will Have an Easy Path to a Difficult Job
Senators lined up to praise Ashton Carter, but the Pentagon’s former No. 2 will return to a different Defense Department and a different set of threats.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Inside the Obama Administration’s About-Face on Arming Ukraine
The United States is inching closer to supplying weapons to Ukraine. Here's how the policy shift happened.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Democrats Huddle With Israeli Ambassador to Discuss Delay of Netanyahu Speech
Following a wave of criticism over the Israeli prime minister's planned address to Congress, a group of pro-Israel Democrats met with Israel’s ambassador on Wednesday to discuss postponing the speech.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Shall I Compare King Abdullah to a Summer’s Day?
An exercise in state-sponsored hagiography.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 CENTCOM’s socialite shenanigans make me wonder about SOCOM investigation
Tom Ricks questions the intel on Gen. Petraeus's relationship with Paula Broadwell.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 McCain: Carter Is Right for the Pentagon, but Only if the White House Lets Him Run It
The Republican senator hopes Carter's voice won't be sidelined in national security debates.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama’s Surveillance Reform Extends Unmatched Privacy to Foreigners
U.S. surveillance reform in the aftermath of Edward Snowden's revelations haven't gone far enough, but there's one change that no spy agency in the world offers: privacy protections for foreigners.