Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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Trump Has Just Raised the Stakes With Moscow and Tehran in Three Risky Moves
President Trump made three big moves on Syria and Iran this week. They crisscross and contradict one another, but the administration’s game plan in the Middle East just got a lot clearer.
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Here’s the Enormous Economic Leverage China Has Over North Korea
By Greg Wright, The ConversationNorth Korea got the world’s attention – and President Donald Trump’s – when it said on July 4 that it had successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time. The weapon,...
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Trump’s Fly-by-Night Mideast ‘Policy’ Embraces the Saudi’s New Crown Prince
It’s not likely that President Trump knew what he was getting into when he embraced the Saudis as the rightful leaders of the Islamic world and the war on terror during his visit to Riyadh last month...
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Russia’s Top Troll Strikes Again: Putin Offers Comey Political Asylum
By Rob GarverWhile much of the world looks at the turmoil in Washington, DC with apprehension and dread, at least somebody watching the expanding investigation of President Trump and his associates is enjoying...
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Here’s How the US Could Cripple North Korea’s Economy
By Rob GarverPunishing North Korea economically for its misdeeds may be simpler than many believe, according to a new report from a Washington non-profit.
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Time for Trump to Face It: From Now on, Every Week Is ‘Russia Week’
By Rob GarverThe Trump administration’s efforts to keep Russian interference in last year’s election out of the headlines are being overwhelmed by events, as another week ostensibly dedicated to a different issue...
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Putin’s Just Trolling the World Now on Trump and the US Election
By Rob GarverRussian President Vladimir Putin conceded for the first time that perhaps computer hackers from his country actually had worked to undermine Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
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Here’s One Credible Reason to Doubt the Russia-Kushner Story
By Rob GarverFollowing the Washington Post report on Friday that top White House adviser Jared Kushner had approached the Russian ambassador to the US about opening a secret line of communications between Moscow...
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How Trump Really Could Make a Difference in the Middle East
By Liz PeekTwo presidents, two trips to the Middle East in their first year in office. That is where the similarities end. I was in Cairo for President Obama’s much-celebrated speech in 2009 as a guest of...
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Trump the Diplomat? Will He Charm or Harm US Relations?
Whoever put together President Trump’s first foreign tour has a good grasp of the grand gesture. When he departs Friday, his main stops are Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Vatican, making Trump the...
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Obama’s Middle East Mess and How to Clean It Up
This has to be a singular moment in the Obama administration’s evolving policies in the Middle East. Hold it all up to the light and ask yourself: American foreign policy may be right or wrong in any...
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Boehner, Heading to Israel, Slams Obama’s Treatment of Netanyahu
By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal TimesAhead of his trip to Israel this week during the congressional recess, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) criticized the Obama administration Sunday for its treatment of Israeli Prime Minister...
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Saudi Sunnis and Iran’s Shiites—Why the U.S. Can’t Support Both
The stakes for the West have never been higher in the Middle East, only this time, it’s not just about oil, Kuwait, or al-Qaeda. It’s about a possible full-fledged tribal war between the Sunnis of...
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Emails Show Hillary Had Secret Benghazi Warning
By Jeff Gerth, ProPublicaStarting weeks before Islamic militants attacked the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, longtime Clinton family confidante Sidney Blumenthal supplied intelligence to then Secretary of State...
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The Shocking Torture the U.S. Unwittingly Condones
The Middle East has never been a haven for human rights, but throughout the region these days — from Iraq to Syria, Egypt to Libya — the war against ISIS is being used as an excuse for unprecedented...