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The Evolution of an Interventionist

How John McCain became America's unofficial ambassador of leading from the front.

BY JOHN NORRIS | JUNE 14, 2013

Secret Police State

What’s worse: the NSA or the East German Stasi?

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 14, 2013

Type 'S' for Suspicious

DARPA's far-out, high-tech plan to catch the next Edward Snowden.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JUNE 12, 2013

America: Choosing Security Over Liberty Since 1798

Sorry, Edward Snowden -- the United States has a long, dubious history of putting national security before people's freedoms.  

BY HAYES BROWN | JUNE 11, 2013

Oversight Now

Why Congress needs to go big -- and restrict the power of a runaway executive branch.

BY BRUCE ACKERMAN | JUNE 11, 2013

Inside the NSA's Ultra-Secret China Hacking Group

Deep within the National Security Agency, an elite, rarely discussed team of hackers and spies is targeting America's enemies abroad.

BY MATTHEW M. AID | JUNE 10, 2013

Obama’s Surveillance State

The war on terror has taken over not just U.S. foreign policy, but also our inboxes, smartphones, and Facebook pages. And we're only beginning to understand how much harm that's caused.

BY SUZANNE NOSSEL | JUNE 7, 2013

The Combative Consigliere

Will Susan Rice bring out a more muscular side of Barack Obama?

BY JAMES TRAUB | JUNE 6, 2013

How Obama Tried and Failed to Make Friends with China

Don't expect much from the upcoming summit -- we've been down this road before.

BY ISAAC STONE FISH | JUNE 5, 2013

Reforming the Democracy Bureaucracy

Washington's democracy promotion community is a mess. Here's how to fix it.

BY MELINDA HARING | JUNE 3, 2013

An Honest Broker

The national security advisor of James Mann's profile bears little resemblance to the Tom Donilon I know.

BY JEREMY BASH | MAY 28, 2013

Speak No Evil

Why Obama shouldn't have given that big drone speech.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MAY 28, 2013

New Asia, Old Europe

Does one obscure Austrian philosopher have the blueprint for the U.S. pivot to Asia?

BY FRANK JACOBS | MAY 28, 2013

Obama's Gray Man

Tom Donilon has amassed enormous behind-the-scenes power as the president’s national security advisor. But now, as the White House shuffles its foreign-policy team, his critics are sharpening their knives.

BY JAMES MANN | MAY 28, 2013

The Indispensable Nation's Indispensable Weapon

Obama can't live without drones, Pakistan can't live with 'em. So the president bowed to the Islamic street.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MAY 24, 2013

Freedom Begins at Home

How can the Obama administration credibly promote freedom of speech abroad while restricting it in the United States?

BY SUZANNE NOSSEL | MAY 23, 2013

Prepare to Start Making Things Again

Why America's natural gas boom is good news for U.S. manufacturing and bad news for China.

BY CHARLES R. MORRIS | MAY 22, 2013

Metternich in Baghdad

No, America hasn't "lost" Iraq. But a dangerous realpolitik is the new normal in Baghdad.

BY RAMZY MARDINI | MAY 20, 2013

The 5 Best Tumblrs for Foreign Policy Nerds

Is this worth a billion dollars?

BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH | MAY 20, 2013

Are We Becoming Argentina?

The Republican Party is taking America down a dangerous path.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | MAY 20, 2013

No, They Can’t

Why American presidents always disappoint us.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MAY 20, 2013

Obama's Plumbers

This time, a secretive president has gone too far.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MAY 17, 2013

Give Them Our Huddled Masses

Why America should swap its retirees, patients, and students for skilled immigrant labor.

BY AADITYA MATTOO, ARVIND SUBRAMANIAN | MAY 17, 2013

The Unstoppable Force vs. the Immovable Object

Could the United States really go to war with China?

BY NOAH FELDMAN | MAY 16, 2013

Dead on Arrival

I co-wrote the Arab Peace Initiative. And I doubt Kerry's good-faith attempt to revive it will succeed.

BY MARWAN MUASHER | MAY 16, 2013

Obama's Self-Inflicted Scandal

The only thing transparent about the White House is its perverse penchant for secrecy.

BY RICHARD A. EPSTEIN | MAY 15, 2013

You Know It's Bad…

When progress in the Middle East seems more in reach than a Washington that works.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | MAY 14, 2013

Out With It

Americans deserve to hear the dirty secrets of the CIA’s war on terror. We’ll all be better off with the truth.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MAY 10, 2013

Time for Kerry to Face Facts

As America's top diplomat heads to Moscow, here are some tough questions he needs to answer about the Obama administration's flawed nuclear treaty.

BY ROBERT JOSEPH, ERIC EDELMAN | MAY 6, 2013

How to Close Guantanamo

Why Obama doesn’t need Congress to start to make good on his promise.

BY LAURA PITTER | MAY 1, 2013