Lawmakers in the upper chamber deserve blame for their failure to staff the State Department ahead of the unfolding crisis in Kabul.

It normally takes more than two years to get a refugee out of the country. The president doesn’t have that kind of time.

The failed former Chicago mayor will be shipped off to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Japan, for some reason.

Joe Biden has the chance to curtail a corrupt practice that official Washington has long ignored.

Biden is getting the Obama gang back together. Their old pro-shale positions were pretty bad for the climate.

The State Department, a conservative-connected shell company, and a key Kurdish crime family team up to siphon Syrian oil for U.S. investors.

There are alternatives to America’s heavy-handed attempts at “helping” the region. It’s time to pursue them.

Suicides, ship quarantines, confused commanders, and stranded families: The Pentagon’s war-weary ranks are fraying amid the pandemic.

The U.S. has misused its "exorbitant" financial privilege, but American leaders should transform it, not abandon it.

In its laser focus on military restraint, the present debate about endless war overlooks the financial architecture of U.S. empire.

The Soleimani assassination and its aftermath suggest that America's top diplomat is really the viceroy of its national security establishment.

As tensions rise, an unprecedented military briefing by a hawkish secretary of state throws the chain of command into doubt.

Robert George, longtime religious zealot and onetime Never Trumper, has reached the halls of Foggy Bottom.

The State Department wants to present its new human rights project as empirical and historical. But "natural law" is as political as anything else.

Behind President Trump's Twitter theatrics, there's a growing theme to American diplomacy.

The case for cyber peace with Russia

He faces numerous possible pitfalls in his first official trip to the region—as well as opportunities.