

U.S. Considering Releasing Jonathan Pollard?
Reports are circulating that the Obama Administration is considering releasing Jonathan Pollard, and many are seeing it as an effort to placate Israel in the wake of the Iran deal.
Reports are circulating that the Obama Administration is considering releasing Jonathan Pollard, and many are seeing it as an effort to placate Israel in the wake of the Iran deal.
Rand Paul’s Presidential campaign isn’t going so well at the moment.
Republicans have nobody to blame but themselves for the anti-immigrant Frankenstein in their midst.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has formally entered the race for President, but can he overcome his flip-flops and a turn to the hard right?
The NYT paints the longshot senator as a happy warrior trying to win the White House by doing it his way.
He definitely wouldn’t appreciate it, but in some sense you can thank Robert Bork for the Supreme Court’s opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will be entering the race for President later this month, but it’s unclear if his recent turn to the hard right will help him or hurt him.
For the first time since 1961, there will soon be an American Embassy in Havana, and a Cuban Embassy in Washington. It’s well past time that this happened.
A new poll shows that solid majorities of Americans support the Supreme Court’s decisions on Obamacare subsidies and marriage. It’s a different story for Republicans.
The Administration announced changes to the way the government handles hostage situations, but it really doesn’t amount to much.
Virginia Republicans are deciding later this week how they will make their choice in the 2016 Presidential Race. And they may end up regretting their decision.
It’s easier for an American citizen to go to Iran or North Korea than it is for them to go to Cuba, That’s insane.
Was this simply ordinary intelligence collection? Or something more insidious?
We live in a random and chaotic universe.
Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us.
In a case that took seven months to decide, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Presidency’s broad authority in foreign affairs, and inserted itself just a little bit in the thorny politics of the Middle East.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker isn’t officially a candidate for President yet, but he’s doing quite well in Iowa anyway.
Another step forward toward ending a U.S. policy regarding Cuba that was outdated twenty years ago.
Rand Paul is out with one of his more forceful attacks on Republican hawks to date.
ISIS has captured Ramadi, and revealed yet again how fractured Iraq actually is. Fixing that isn’t something that American aid or arms can accomplish.
The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia has seen better days.
Iraq seems to becoming a political headache for yet another member of the Bush family.
Seymour Hersh is out with a conspiracy theory about the death of Osama bin Laden that just doesn’t make sense.
Jeb Bush told a group of supporters that his brother is his top Middle East policy adviser. This strikes me as being a bad idea.
Two Republican candidates for President say that Republican elected officials should simply ignore the Supreme Court if it strikes down bans on same-sex marriage.
Rand Paul bucks Republican orthodoxy on Iraq, Libya, and negotiations with Iran.
Saudi Arabia’s new King has shaken up the Royal Family, and that could have interesting results.
A series of mini-scandals point to the conflicts of interest around the Clintons.
Marco Rubio is often described as one of the GOP’s leaders on foreign policy, but a close look reveals a decided lack of substance.
For months, Ted Cruz said the nomination of Loretta Lynch must be blocked. Then, he failed to show up when the Senate voted on her nomination.
Chinese analysts are telling their American counterparts that North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is far more sophisticated than previously believed.
New allegations regarding foreign government donations to the Clinton Foundation seem likely to become a campaign issue.
And the fun part is that his main motive for running appears to be the opportunity to troll Rand Paul.
Like nearly all of his fellow Republicans, Jeb Bush has adopted the disastrous foreign policy views that typified his brother’s Presidency.
Marco Rubio is the first Republican in the race who actually has a plausible chance to win the nomination, but it’s not going to be easy.
Rand Paul has changed position on several foreign policy issues, but he doesn’t seem to want to talk about it.
Rand Paul is the latest Republican to enter the race, but his path to even becoming a contender is a difficult one at best.
The political media is breathlessly reporting on every event in a campaign that is just beginning, and voters aren’t really paying attention to it at this point.
Rand Paul has been cozying up to social conservatives lately, but he risks alienating the people most likely to support his campaign for the White House.