Marco Rubio is the latest Republican Presidential candidate to have a problem giving a coherent answer to a few simple questions about the Iraq War.
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.
Like most Republicans, Jeb Bush either fails or refuses to recognize what an utter, unjustifiable disaster his brother’s decision to invade Iraq actually was.
Rand Paul bucks Republican orthodoxy on Iraq, Libya, and negotiations with Iran.
A series of mini-scandals point to the conflicts of interest around the Clintons.
Five years after it became law, the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act appears to be over.
Like nearly all of his fellow Republicans, Jeb Bush has adopted the disastrous foreign policy views that typified his brother’s Presidency.
Some thoughts on a column by Roger Noriega on the Obama administration and Latin America,
Unlike most world leaders, Pope Francis is wiling to call a genocide a genocide.
One freshman Senator seems to think that war with Iran would be easy, just like Republicans used to think that war against Iraq would be easy.
President George W. Bush had a running battle with the CIA throughout his eight years in office. Now, they’ve given him an award.
Do we really want to put another first-term Senator with no executive experience in the Oval Office? Because beyond the mere legal requirements, it does not appear that Ted Cruz is qualified to be President.
Hillary Clinton’s use of email while Secretary of State pretty much violated every Federal law and regulation on the issue.
The costs of more than a decade of war are far higher than many ever thought, and we’re still paying the price for the fiscal irresponsibility of the Bush Administration while they were being fought.
Vice-President Cheney’s amoral defense of torture has come to define how most conservatives view the issue, and that’s a problem.
Rick Perry is sounding for all the world like a candidate for President, and says he’s a different candidate this time, but initial perceptions are hard to overcome.
A dark and regrettable time in American history is finally seeing the light of day.
The GOP Senate Caucus seems to be split on whether or not to reinstate the filibuster for Presidential and Judicial appointments.
The Office of Legal Counsel told the president Wednesday he couldn’t do what he did on Thursday.
On substance, the President’s immigration actions aren’t very objectionable. How he is implementing them, though, is problematic and seems needlessly confrontational.
If the President now believes he can act unilaterally on immigration reform, why did he spend the last five years saying that he couldn’t?
Another round of election losses is leading Democrats to contemplate the direction they should take going forward.
Not unexpectedly, the Supreme Court has declined to hear a case challenging the Constitutionality of the Senate filibuster.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul continues to challenge Republican orthodoxy on foreign policy, and that’s a good thing.
A new report from the New York Times confirms the adage that, in war, the first casualty is the truth.
The Turks have entered the conflict in Syria. Unfortunately for the United States, it’s not on the side we would prefer.
If the GOP wins the Senate in November, their majority could prove to be fleeting.
A majority of Americans don’t care very much who controls Congress.
The Obama Administration’s legal justification for war against ISIS is laughably flimsy.
Does Hillary Clinton remember that she was Secretary of State for four years?
Despite a high profile effort to oust him, the most prominent libertarian Republican in Congress survived his primary challenge yesterday.
The C.I.A. has admitted spying on Senate investigators.
Crisis seems to be brewing all over the world, but the American people aren’t persuaded that it’s necessary for the United States to act.
A lot of Republicans dislike the President enough to think that he should be removed from office, but will that make impeachment more likely to happen?
There’s a new round of allegations about American spying on Germany.
A new poll shows that Americans don’t buy into the idea of “American exceptionalism” as much as they used to. That’s a positive development rather than a negative one.
Public faith in government institutions is at all all time low.
When it comes to Iraq, the media only seems to be giving Americans one side of the story.
If current trends holds, Democratic candidates are going to have a problem turning out voters in November.
We’ve seen a notable number of 9-0 Supreme Court decisions this term, but that doesn’t mean that the side that lost was making an extreme or meritless argument.
My latest for The National Interest, “Neoconservatives, the Iraq Debate and Ad Hominem Attacks,” has posted.
The Supreme Court rules that Recess Appointments can only be made when there’s actually a Congressional recess.
After appearing to be at the end of his political career, Thad Cochran has pulled off a surprising victory over his Tea Party backed challenger.