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.

Bombings in Syria and Afghanistan were oddly exciting to some pundits.

It blinds us to the ways in which the institutions constraining Trump are themselves flawed.

Instead of correcting Obama's missteps, Trump is exploiting the public's worst fears.

The president often says stupid, impulsive, indefensible things. Why shouldn't his press secretary do the same?

His administration can't get on the same page about Syria because there is no coherent foreign policy. Anything is possible, and that's horrifying.

Yes, chief adviser Steve Bannon should be fired because he's a white nationalist. But he's not the source of Trump's incompetence.

This week was pretty bad. But next week will be worse.

The missile attack on Syria shows how the president has caved to the Pentagon—with deadly consequences for U.S. foreign policy.