U.S. President Donald Trump’s surprisingly restrained reaction to North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test has left many observers wondering what his next...
Let’s say you are a Trump voter, the kind we often hear about – an honest, hardworking American who put up with Donald Trump’s unusual behavior because you...
President Trump confronts complicated problems as the investigation widens into Russia’s attack on our political system.
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...
It’s an undeniable fact that the French culture, language, fashion, etc. have played a prominent role in Lebanon, prompting education and the country’s...
Just days after Donald Trump was inaugurated as America’s 45th president, he took on as his first task the abolishment of Barack Obama’s legacy and the...
On Jan. 31, the Tunisian Parliament lifted an independence-era suffrage ban on the armed and security forces, a contentious decision that had held up the...
As the civil war in Syria nears the six-year mark, the mounting death toll and constantly shifting military landscape is making a mockery of the diplomatic...
Perhaps it’s just me, but a few weeks into the Trump presidency, between the tweets, executive orders, attacks and counterattacks, I feel dizzy.
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...
After his spat with Mexico, after the travel ban, this week Donald Trump did something that surprised me.
The political debate over the future status of Syrian refugees in Lebanon is marked by a strong reluctance to discuss the massive changes the country has been...
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...
In his first days in office, Donald Trump has begun to reverse the domestic policies of the previous eight years.
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.
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.
Donald Trump has perhaps attacked no country as consistently as he has China.
“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.
I’m glad that Donald Trump finally got a briefing on the unanimous conclusion of America’s intelligence agencies that the Russian government was behind the...
For America, 2016 was a dark year.
Two decades ago, I wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs that described an unusual and worrying trend – the rise of illiberal democracy.