The great paradox in the world today is that the “dumb simplicity” of America’s self-perception is both obviously bogus and fundamentally true.

In the call with the Ukrainian president, he bears down on his target’s weaknesses and doesn’t relent.

Donald Trump has spent his presidency belittling and attacking career foreign-policy professionals. Now that he’s asking for their loyalty, they don’t seem to feel any.

The food shock of 2022 is not a good-news story. But our “bad” is less bad than ever before.

The Florida governor has a plan to win the Fox News primary—and lose everything else.

Countering “dangerous movements at home might be the most productive thing we can do to maintain a convincing voice abroad,” one reader argues.

The future of the democratic world will be determined by whether the Ukrainian military can break a stalemate with Russia and drive the country backwards—perhaps even out of Crimea for good.

Ask people why they're camped out in Kiev's streets, and you'll get a multitude of answers. Will that doom the protest movement? 

“If the president can simply refuse all oversight, particularly in the context of an impeachment proceeding, the balance of power between our two branches of government will be irrevocably altered.”

Smaller-scale tactical nuclear weapons could bring the great powers into a brutal, deadly, and unprecedented conflict.