

ISIS is What it Says it Is
The Atlantic has a fascinating cover story by Graeme Wood titled “What ISIS Really Wants.”
The Atlantic has a fascinating cover story by Graeme Wood titled “What ISIS Really Wants.”
ISIS apparently now has a foothold in Libya, and is making inroads in Yemen.
Has the legislative branch abdicated its responsibility in US foreign policy?
Reports indicate that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is likely to be charged with desertion for leaving his post in 2009, but he’s unlikely to serve time in prison.
While the issue of income inequality is quite real, Oxfam’s numbers are not.
A day of terror at a school in Pakistan.
A dark and regrettable time in American history is finally seeing the light of day.
The idea that the U.S. does not negotiate with terrorists is simply not historically accurate, so should we be reconsidering the policy of not negotiating with ISIS for the release of Western hostages?
Yesterday’s apparent terrorist shooting in Ottawa reveals again a phenomenon that seems difficult if not impossible to stop in advance.
The Khorasan Group is, functionally, al Qaeda. Or is it?
Before leaving office, Hamid Karzai is once again biting that hand that has fed him for the past decade.
The Obama Administration’s legal justification for war against ISIS is laughably flimsy.
If the President is going to increase American involvement in the Middle East, he needs to address some fundamental questions first.
Viet Xuan Luong pins on a brigadier general’s star today, becoming the first Vietnamese-American officer to achieve that rank.
The C.I.A. has admitted spying on Senate investigators.
George Will has come under criticism for pointing out what seems to be an undeniable fact.
Political irony, perhaps, but probably less than meets the eye.
More than any other language, English words are being adopted, and transformed, by other languages.
The First World War played an intriguing role in the birth of the radical Islam we are dealing with today.
It’s good that Bowe Bergdahl is free, but questions remain about how he went missing that need to be answered.
The President’s second speech to the Corps of Cadets is a vast improvement over the first.
Once again, President Obama’s attempt to communicate a foreign policy vision falls short.
An imperfect timetable, but better than nothing.
Not every tragedy can be resolved with a military response.
Afghanistan’s outgoing President says that his nation doesn’t need American troops to stay after the end of the year.
President Obama is rewarding unqualified hacks who raised huge sums for his campaign with ambassadorships.
President Obama’s new rules for killing Americans with drones are proving inconvenient.
Most Americans now see America’s decade of war as a failure.
A new book by former SecDef Robert Gates is making political waves in Washington power circles, but will it matter to ordinary Americans?
The New York Times Benghazi report raises as many questions as it purports to answer.
Signs of some progress in the talks over Iran’s nuclear weapons program.