His State of the Union address sketched a foreign policy that is reckless on some points, relatively restrained on others, and utterly uninterested in any real resolution to America’s lingering military entanglements.
They say the U.S. is pivoting to other conflicts, but the Pentagon hasn't exactly left the Middle East and North Africa behind.
Faced with White House opposition, Sanders withdrew a resolution that would've challenged U.S. involvement in the Yemeni Civil War.
Religious Kurds used social media to shut down a rap concert—and they're swinging their weight around politics, too.
The new DC Comics-based film wants to critique the superhero status quo. Instead, it ends up supporting it.
If the combat mission is over in the Middle East, Biden should follow—and make permanent—more cautious drone guidelines.
Biden brought an unwinnable war to an end. But the lessons learned are only as valuable as the U.S. government’s willingness to put them to good use.
The Biden administration is reportedly considering a security agreement that would further intertwine the U.S. with an authoritarian, untrustworthy regime.
He claims he'll be "the first president to visit the Middle East since 9/11 without U.S. troops engaged in a combat mission there." But that's not true.
U.S. officials want to reset relations with Saudi Arabia and Israel amid rising gas prices and new security challenges
Ideas Beyond Borders is bringing ideas about pluralism, civil liberties, and critical thinking to hotbeds of Islamic extremism.
But those numbers don’t include Afghanistan, and that’s a problem.
Shameful scenes like those in Kabul don’t have to happen if we avoid military interventions.
Why did it take presidents so long to realize this?
I witnessed firsthand how U.S. actions that favored one group inevitably angered another, which is why the war is an endless game of whack-a-mole.
Sen. Lindsey Graham says it would be Biden's "biggest mistake yet," but the U.S. troop departure is long overdue.
Neither side needs military aid funded by U.S. taxpayers.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Bryan Fogel fought Saudi censorship to make his new documentary, The Dissident.
The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft is promoting a more restrained foreign policy from inside the Beltway. But will the Biden administration listen?
Selling weapons to the UAE would stamp brutality and extremism abroad with American approval.
The documentary Coup 53 explores how a seemingly easy regime change wrecked U.S. foreign policy for decades.
Israel and the United Arab Emirates pledge to cooperate in space, potentially paving the way for a joint mission to the Moon or beyond.
Exiled from the Republican Party, some Bush-era Republicans are now backing Joe Biden. Colin Powell endorsed him on Tuesday night.
Palestinians still get overlooked, but the deal offers an opportunity to ease tensions.
"The best aspect of the Trump foreign policy is that he has revealed the mind of the foreign policy establishment," says historian Thaddeus Russell. "The worst part... he's a mass murderer just like the rest of them."
"Does this advance American safety and security? Does it make Americans freer and more prosperous? The answer is no."
The Kurds of Northern Syria are trying something different, for better or worse.
The nation's only female Olympic medalist says she has permanently left the Islamic Republic due to the oppression of women.
A smart foreign policy includes the consideration of unintended consequences.
It's a good time for those potentially on the receiving end of a draft notice to give some thought to how they might respond or resist.
The Cato Institute's Christopher A. Preble lays out a uniquely libertarian approach to Iran, Iraq, and elsewhere.
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He's wrong on both counts.
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"As president I will end these regime change wars."
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Trust in the media is at historic lows.
Nah, the senator's still wrong about Internet free speech, argue the editors on the Reason Roundtable podcast.
If Trump wants credit for ending wars in the Middle East, he'll have to actually reduce the number of Americans deployed there.
Reshuffling is not only a haphazard half-measure—it is no substitute for the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria.
Graham criticism of Trump's Syria policy says a lot more about the senator's appetite for endless war than the failures of an imagined non-interventionist foreign policy.
The war on terror leaves more dead civilians in its wake.
Open warfare between Iran and Saudi Arabia would be far worse than this weekend's attacks.
If the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are any indication, the move would be a disaster.
Trump says he called off a planned airstrike against Iran on Thursday night, just minutes before the bombs were to be let loose.