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One hour into the two-hour debate, it became abundantly clear that President Donald Trump was destined to become the first American President ever to...
According to Mike Pompeo, it was a tale as old as time – the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism colluding with the world’s most...
The new president’s selection of retired US ambassador William Burns as the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a welcome...
The permanent suspension of President Trump’s Twitter account, carried out unilaterally and devoid of any pretense of due process or appreciation...
In the interest of full disclosure, I supported Donald Trump’s candidacy in 2016, and again in 2020. This was not because I bought into his ‘Make...
January 6, 2021 was supposed to be a day of constitutionally mandated ceremony, where the vice president of the United States presided over a joint...
Iranian domestic politics have supercharged the nation’s diplomatic posture as it awaits the transfer of power in the United States from President...
In comments made to the media on Christmas Eve, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov was critical of US policy toward Russia. Discussing the...
In the aftermath of the revelations regarding the stunning SolarWinds cyber attack which has exposed the computer networks of multiple US government...
Biden’s choice of retired US Army General Lloyd Austin marks the first time that a black man has been nominated to serve as the senior civilian...
The murder of Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on November 27, just outside the Iranian capital of Tehran, was an act of such brazenness that most observers...
On the night of November 3, as the results from largely 'in-person' votes were tallied across the nation, by all appearances, it looked as if...
In an analysis written for the European Council on Foreign Relations, Gustav Gressel, a senior policy fellow, argues that the extensive (and...
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was the shadowy father of Iran’s nuclear program; his existence, let alone his work, was barely acknowledged by Iran. A brigadier...
The withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty on November 22 is just the latest in a series of departures on the part of the US from arms control...
If one listens to Joe Biden and his closest national security advisors, all it will take to undo four years of Trump-era foreign policy is a few dozen...
The US-Taliban peace plan has always been just a political cover for Trump to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. By failing to do so before he leaves...
On Tuesday, the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced it conducted a test of an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System-equipped Arleigh...
To those watching the drama unfolding in Washington, DC around the stalled efforts on the part of nominal President-elect Joe Biden in forming a...
In what has become a force of habit for President Donald Trump, he announced the termination of his Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, and the...
Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign slogan, Make America Great Again, or MAGA, has been seized upon by Americans from all political walks of...
If the press reports are true, it appears that much of the world joined the roughly 50 percent of Americans who celebrated the news that Joe Biden had...
The German head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Michael Georg Link, has told reporters that he was “very...
In the end, the future of the United States and, in many ways, the rest of the world, will be decided not by the American voter, but a much more...
In an opinion piece I wrote for RT last month, I predicted that, because both the Republican and Democratic parties had staked out positions...
In a bold new proposal, Russian President Vladimir Putin has expanded on his existing offer of a moratorium on the deployment of intermediate-range...
You would be justified in thinking that the various news conferences put on by US law enforcement and intelligence officials in which foreign actors...
Less than a week after US-Russian talks on the future of the New START treaty collapsed – amid recriminations from both sides stemming from a...
There is one thing virtually every arms control expert can agree on: extending the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, known as New START, past its...
A foiled plot by 13 self-described “militia” to allegedly kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer underscores just how dangerous the political...
In a unique case of diplomacy by interview, President Trump’s special adviser for arms control, the Russian deputy foreign minister, and the US...
If the transcript of the debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden was submitted to Hollywood as part of a script exploring the state of...
There have been a spate of reports recently, alleging Russian interference in the 2020 US presidential election, specifically the charge that Russian...
In a fable attributed to the Ancient Greek fabulist and storyteller Aesop, a scorpion and a frog meet at the bank of a river. The scorpion asks the...
Throughout her life, Bader Ginsburg (aka, the Notorious RBG) was the embodiment of how the rule of law, manifested through the vehicle of the...
Joe Biden talks a good show. “I believe Russia is an opponent, I really do,” he said at a CNN town hall Thursday night. Biden’s statement was in...
Bob Woodward is a legendary reporter whose talent for getting insiders to speak about the most sensitive matters in government dates back to Watergate...
A pair of prominent American experts on Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have authored separate opinion pieces lamenting the continued survival of the...
A prominent US think tank offers a prediction of a North Korean missile test and what it sees as a likely Trump reaction that would end US-North...
The debate on whether the Trump administration was serious about seeking an extension of the New START Treaty is over. Recent comments by Dr. Robert...
The US Department of Defense has released a sobering assessment of Chinese military capability which throws into question the viability of any...
The dispute has escalated in the past days and weeks, with the US slapping sanctions on Chinese officials and companies involved in the construction...
Joe Biden delivered his acceptance speech as the nominee of the Democratic Party to face off against Donald Trump in the 2020 Presidential election...
According to CNN, the Iranian government has paid “bounties” to the Haqqani network, a terrorist group with close links to the Taliban, for six...
The surprise announcement by President Donald Trump that Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have agreed to the “full normalization” of...
In the span of a week, Politico, a non-partisan global news and information company whose stated mission is “providing accurate, nonpartisan...
The announcement by Secretary of Defense Mike Esper that the US has finalized plans for the withdrawal of some 12,000 troops from Germany came as a...
President Donald Trump, facing an uphill battle for re-election, today raised hackles across the political spectrum of the United States in a tweet...
The hearing was never going to end well. But even the most jaundiced of American political observers could not have predicted the venality and animus...