President-elect Trump believes that the United States has no important interests in Syria, or so he tweeted last week. This announcement has strengthened the view of some in the restraint community who reacted to his election with cautious optimism,

Ben Rhodes is a co-host of the podcast Pod Save the World and the author of After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made. From 2009 to 2017, he served as U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting in the Obama administration.

I examine what is happening with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition to the White House. This week: Donald Trump is inheriting a difficult foreign policy inbox that may only get

At any rate it is the Republicans who have won the election and they have the President and, however nominally, both houses of Congress, so their foreign policy is the only one of practical importance at the present moment. There is nothing mysterious in ...

Trump could choose to just walk away from Syria, as he tried to do once before, when he was president, and watch the Middle East completely unravel and just say what Vice President-elect JD Vance once said about Ukraine: “I don’t really care what happens.”

No matter where you are in the world, the effects of November 5, 2024, are enormous, and its global ramifications will be seen very soon, for better or for worse.

Congressman Bryan Steil has been conducting hearings for the past few months on election integrity regarding suspicious fundraising.

A Chinese national has been charged with acting as an illegal agent for Beijing when serving as the campaign manager for an unnamed local California politician.

The Russian government has long been active in election interference and related disinformation campaigns against democracies.

One of the most high-pressure parts of the test to become an American diplomat involves an “inbox” exercise where the candidate is presented with a hypothetical collection of critical, complicated and urgent scenarios requiring immediate decisions and weighing of alternatives to come up with possible solutions.

A new study has found that almost half of children in Gaza wish to die, as a result of the trauma they have been forced to endure. Every single supplier

During a House hearing Wednesday, lawmakers and experts outlined how foreign adversaries tried to influence the last election. One way, Bradley Bowman with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies says that happened,