The 1997 film was about inventing distraction, not starting an actual war.

John Bolton, the new national security advisor, is a radical nationalist—and has the skills to make Trump's foreign policy fantasies a reality.

Progressives argue that blocking Republicans is the best way to make an electoral comeback. But Democrats need to be more clever than that.

Donald Trump will try to bend the CIA to his will. America is still recovering from the last time a president did that.

The presidential transition is in disarray, hobbled by infighting and retribution. And there are only a few people who can rescue it.

Think tank salaries are looking more and more like lobbyist salaries. That's no surprise.