President Trump confronts complicated problems as the investigation widens into Russia’s attack on our political system. But his responsibilities are simple:...
A strange and circuitous path led Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn toward his fateful telephone contact in late December with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, and the...
Michael Flynn’s real problem isn’t the Logan Act, an obscure and probably unenforceable 1799 statute that bars private meddling in foreign policy disputes....
Michael Flynn, the national security adviser to President Donald Trump, shows visitors a map predicting what will happen to Daesh (ISIS) after its stronghold...
The Arab Spring may seem like a distant memory, but a new report by a team of Arab and American analysts argues that across the Middle East people still feel...
By putting Iran “on notice” for its aggressive behavior, President Donald Trump has taken aim at a country that’s opposed by many U.S. allies. But he has...
At the red-hot center of President Donald Trump’s first 10 days in office has been his strategist Stephen Bannon, who proclaims a global populist movement for...
President Trump’s slash-and-burn actions in his first week have been dramatic, but dangerously lacking in a consensus of support, even within his own...
President Donald Trump’s embrace of Israel poses an unlikely dilemma for leaders of the Jewish state: They have to decide what they want from America, and on...
President Trump’s visit to the CIA on his first day in office mystified some agency veterans because of its combative, political tone. But several said they...
Last February, a top Russian cyber official told a security conference in Moscow that Russia was working on new strategies for the “information arena” that...
CIA Director John Brennan’s biggest concern the past few years hasn’t been Russian hacking, or even the wars in the Middle East, but what he calls...
If you’re worried about climate change, it’s scary to think that the incoming Trump administration could reverse gains made in recent years. But a recent...
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” mutters Marcellus as ghosts and mad spirits haunt Elsinore Castle in the first act of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”...
The intelligence community’s allegation that Russia intervened covertly in the 2016 election describes a significant assault on our democracy. The country...
Watching Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, a gruff, 50-year veteran of the spy world, answer congressional questions Thursday, you couldn’t...
For America, 2016 was a dark year. The country was still at war. Our election was a brutal grudge match that left us more polarized than ever. Our closest...
Most presidents wait until inauguration before sparking their first foreign policy crises. Donald Trump has a month to go and he has already wandered into two...
The fall of Aleppo is a human catastrophe. It’s also a demonstration of the perils of choosing the middle course in a military conflict. Sometimes it’s...
Intelligence officers like to distinguish between knowable secrets that spies can steal and fuzzier mysteries that have to be assessed without final,...
Given the turf wars and interagency rivalries that have long surrounded U.S. special operations forces, President Obama probably didn’t do the commandos any...
Whatever else future historians say about Donald Trump’s early foreign policy moves, they’re likely to note the erratic and, in many ways, self-defeating...
The Pentagon has begun briefing key allies on plans for advanced weapons technologies aimed at offsetting Russian and Chinese military gains. But the next...
Richard Stengel, State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, bluntly states the problem that has been worrying him, and should worry us all: “In a...
Perhaps we should be thankful this week for Donald Trump’s insincerity. In a breathtaking fortnight of flip-flopping, he has reversed many of his most...