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Court-bashing, norm-skirting, bureaucrat-purging.

Trump is giving the Taliban everything they want and abandoning the Afghan government.

Yes, and sooner than you might think, argues Misagh Parsa in a thoughtful book on the state of dissent inside Iran.

From Russia with love: Putin’s election meddling and American self-doubt.

Iran has had more COVID-19 deaths than any country but China. The Iranian people are right to doubt the regime’s facts and policies.

He used to be the future of the Republican party. Now he’s desperately hunting for new principles.

The Trump administration failed to block the U.K. from working with the Chinese telecom giant. Here’s why it matters.

Congress should be wary of further limiting the president’s authority to quickly project military power.

The era of great power competition is back, and Washington is worried.

Lingering in the new decade are some of the old anxieties...

Their shared antipathy to mainstream U.S. policy gives the two men a lot in common.

Take Hillary Clinton's calculation and ambition; cross it with Donald Trump's vulgarity and dishonesty, and voila—you've got Mike Pompeo.

Pete Buttigieg has clear views about America's role in the world. And they're a lot like the old-school, Cold War Democrats'.