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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How ISIS Used a YouTube Video to Signal When to Attack
By Patrick Tucker, Defense OneA YouTube video’s best day, traffic-wise, is usually the day it gets posted. Clicks generally decline quickly and post-launch spikes are rare. On Dec. 18, a year-old jihadist video called “Black...
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US Spent $760 Million on Afghan Education But No One Knows If It Helped
The U.S. invested nearly $760 million to boost primary and secondary education in Afghanistan over 12 years but has failed to assess whether the dozens of efforts involved in the push have had any...
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Why Saudi Arabia May be the Next Middle Eastern Mess
By Ryan Cooper, TheWeek.comSaudi Arabia has been a hot bed of bad news recently. First, there was their horrifying war in Yemen, then their empty threat to start selling off U.S. debt. Most recently, the 30-year-old Deputy...
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Syria’s Civil War Has Spawned a Huge Mental Health Crisis
By Eric PianinSince its start more than five years ago in March 2011, the Syrian civil war has been marked by death, carnage and dislocation — with no real end in sight. More than 470,000 people have been killed...
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The Mideast Mess Obama Will Leave Behind
What a dismal week in the Middle East for the Obama administration. In the course of a couple of days, the partial ceasefire in Syria began to fray , the peace talks in Geneva turned stony , and the...