On Wednesday afternoon,Donald Trump, the third president in American history to be impeached, became the first to be impeached twice. TheHouse of Representativesvoted 232–197 to impeach Trump for…

The SolarWinds hack – now attributed to Russia by U.S. government representatives including Mike Pompeo – has caused enormous damage. Perhaps it should come as no surprise, then, that a massive…

Tensions over anemic European defense spending have long suffused transatlantic relations—and since 2014, they have become all-consuming, crowding out other priorities, straining the alliance, and…

The Defense Department’s coming near-total withdrawal of troops from Somalia follows its 2019 re-assessment of its force posture in Africa, aimed at shifting finite resources to great power…

Missile threats from rogue nations have increased over the last few years, and the new administration will inherit plans for bolstering homeland defense. President-elect Biden might be tempted to de…

In November, theU.S. Supreme Courtstruck down emergency limits thatNew York Statehad placed on religious gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Such restrictions, the Court ruled,…

The typically staid transfer of power in Washington was subjected to a historic disruption by a series of bomb threats, violent protests outside the Capitol, and the storming of the legislative…

In a diplomatic breakthrough, Saudi Arabia and its three Arab allies agreed to restore full ties with Doha at a summit in the kingdom on Tuesday. Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani was met…

Indonesiais the world’s fourth most populous country and its seventh-largest economy. Yet the Southeast Asian country has historically played an undersized role in global affairs. Its traditional…

In early November, Ethiopian Prime MinisterAbiy Ahmedbegan a military offensive against the Tigrayan People’sLiberation Front, an estranged regional government that once dominated Ethiopia’s ruling…