The day President Barack Obama made “strategic patience” a central element of his national security strategy, the latest death toll in the Syrian civil war...
Decades of Civil War and turmoil in Lebanon have “vaccinated” the country against future turmoil, according to an analysis by two of...
WASHINGTON: Slowly but surely, the United States is moving toward an end to marijuana prohibition, now in its 78th year. Referendums in November brought to 23...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama began his sixth year in office last January by telling Americans it was time for their country to move off its “permanent...
When Barack Obama became America’s first black president, optimistic pundits pondered the prospect of a “post-racial” society, color-blind and free of racial...
WASHINGTON: Three months before the end of his presidency, George W. Bush signed into law what amounts to an American guarantee to preserve Israel’s...
Despite a flood of wrenching images and graphic reports on the suffering of Palestinian civilians, a majority of Americans side with Israel in its assault on...
WASHINGTON: America’s campaign of assassinations by missile-laden drones could push the country down a slippery slope to endless war and hand other...
WASHINGTON: The United States has rarely been stronger. Those who say it is in decline are misreading history. America will remain the world’s...
President Barack Obama, stung by criticism of his foreign policy in general and on Syria in particular, has promised more aid to moderate rebels but added a...
WASHINGTON: The United States’ status as a democratic society is under threat as it turns into an oligarchy where policy is shaped by a rich elite and...
WASHINGTON: To hear American experts on computer warfare tell it, the United States has cyber weapons that could cripple the Syrian government’s air...
Humanitarian aid groups are grappling with a paradox in dealing with the mass suffering caused by Syria’s civil war: The more horrific it gets, the more...
The day he took office, President Barack Obama promised to head “the most open and transparent” government in U.S. history.Five years later, American...
A series of legislative defeats have dented the legendary reputation of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee as the lobby that gets what it wants...
The U.S. intelligence community has come up with new estimates on the disparate rebel forces in Syria’s civil war that suggest peace is out of reach in the...
WASHINGTON: At the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Day 2014, marijuana went on sale at licensed shops in Colorado, the first U.S. state to treat the...
WASHINGTON: As diplomats prepare for an oft-postponed international peace conference on Syria next month, a look at past civil wars suggests that the Syrian...
WASHINGTON: What do Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, France and Spain have in common? They are all U.S. allies run by leaders who are...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s remote-control war on Al-Qaeda has come under fresh criticism in a new U.N report that says the involvement of the...
A succession of American presidents has described the United States as “the one indispensable nation,” a model for the rest of the world. But the...
WASHINGTON: After a string of incorrect forecasts in 2011 about the imminent fall of President Bashar Assad, U.S. policymakers shy away from publicly...
WASHINGTON: “There is a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said...
WASHINGTON: The U.S. administration is clinging to the notion that billions of dollars in military aid buys influence over in Egypt – despite graphic...
WASHINGTON: When Barack Obama won elections in 2008 to become the first black president of the United States, hopes were running high that the country had...