List of United States articles
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Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) A handy guide to current historical thinking on the American Revolution
Some surprising facts from the American Revolution.
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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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Souvenir glasses with an image of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images) The Trump Administration Is Now Offering Cash Bounties for Hezbollah Leaders
The U.S. announced $12 million for two senior leaders, marking a shift in counterterrorism strategy.
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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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This picture from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released on Aug. 30 shows North Korea's intermediate-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 lifting off at an undisclosed location near Pyongyang. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) Your Apocalyptic Fantasies Aren’t Helping the North Korea Crisis
Stop speculating about nuclear war, and start asking these six questions about the Trump administration’s policies toward Pyongyang.
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South Korean soldiers stand guard on the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images) North Korea Reportedly Hacks Treasure Trove of U.S., South Korean War Plans
The revelation comes as Defense Secretary Mattis tells the Army to ready itself.
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Andrej Babis near Prague on Oct. 04, 2017. (Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images) Is the Czech Republic Falling Under Putin’s Shadow?
Central Europe and the Balkans are slowly but surely slipping away from the West’s embrace.
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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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A doctor treats a Yemeni child infected with cholera at a makeshift hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders in Yemen’s Hajjah province on July 16. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images) Yemen’s Man-Made Cholera Outbreak Is About to Break a Record
In Haiti, it took seven years for the number of cholera cases to surpass 800,000. In Yemen, it’s taken several months.
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Ukrainian soldiers during a 2015 ceasefire with pro-Russian separatists near the town of Artemivsk (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images) What Realists Don’t Understand About Law
There’s nothing more realistic than realizing that national interests aren’t just about power, geography, and great men.
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Donald Trump speaks at a rally organized by the Tea Party Patriots against the Iran nuclear deal on Sept. 9, 2015. Here’s What Happens if Trump Really Decides to Decertify the Iran Deal
It seems that the ball is now in Congress’s court.
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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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The aftermath of a car bomb in Mogadishu in July (STR/AFP/Getty Images). Not All Amnesty Deals Are Made the Same
Somalia offered a deal to al-Shabab fighters willing to lay down their arms. Here’s why it didn’t work.
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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 5: Demonstrators march during a demonstration in response to the Trump Administration's announcement that it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on September 5, 2017 in Washington, DC. DACA, an immigration policy passed by former President Barack Obama, allows certain undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as minors to receive renewable two-year deferred action from deportation and eligibility fork a work permit. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images) Will Republicans End Up Fixing Immigration After All?
Trump took aim at the Obama-era DACA program. Now, reform-minded conservatives are scrambling to find their own immigration solutions.
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US President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd Annual UN General Assembly in New York on September 19, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Jewel SAMAD (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images) It’s Time for the United States to Grade the U.N. and Other International Organizations
An American assessment regimen would propel international organizations to better serve their own missions — and to incorporate U.S. interests.
