What Israeli Airstrikes Say About Trump’s Middle East Policy
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's reassurance tour of the region isn't going so well.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's reassurance tour of the region isn't going so well.
35 years later, United States foreign policy is still dangerously indecisive in the Middle East.
Leftist challengers in 2018 have an opportunity to tackle one of the most troubling legacies of the Obama years.
The president's latest defense of his cozy relationship with Russia underscores his warped view of war.
As France's new asylum bill shows, seemingly gender-neutral policies in Europe and the U.S. have dire consequences for women in particular.
How a U.S. citizen captured on the battlefield with ISIS may finally force America to confront the legacy of 9/11
No, we're not reliving the 1960s, says Harvard historian Arne Westad.
Don't congratulate the administration on avoiding Russian retaliation. The humanitarian crisis in Syria remains, and the real collision course here is between Israel and Iran.
The demise of the Trump-Putin bromance leaves a dangerous combination: two toddlers-in-chief, a bellicose top adviser, and a decimated diplomatic corps.
Germany’s risky law for stopping hate speech on Facebook and Twitter
How Donald Trump's hands-off approach to Saudi Arabia squanders the U.S.'s leverage in the Middle East
A U.N. report on Myanmar's campaign against the Rohingya reveals the ways in which oppressive regimes can use social media for ill.
A look back at what the administration has accomplished in the region in the past year
His rambling, incoherent speech to the U.N. General Assembly was proof that the president only has one audience in mind—and it isn't a global one.
Osama Alomar's story collection "The Teeth of the Comb" looks at cruelty, compassion, and hope in the face of catastrophe.
Despite Trump's campaign rhetoric, his hawkish stance increasingly resembles Hillary Clinton's—and it's stirring fears of a major war.
He faces numerous possible pitfalls in his first official trip to the region—as well as opportunities.
Trump was powered to the Oval Office by fascists. Now they feel betrayed.
Nixon was smart and calculating. Trump is just ignorant and incompetent.
It blinds us to the ways in which the institutions constraining Trump are themselves flawed.