Clemons is a senior fellow and the founder of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, a centrist think tank in Washington, D.C., where he previously served as executive vice president. He writes and speaks frequently about the D.C. political scene, foreign policy, and national security issues, as well as domestic and global economic-policy challenges.
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Tyrone Siu/Reuters Where Does Hillary Clinton Stand on China and Russia?
It's unclear how she would manage two of America's most important and complex relationships.
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Wikimedia Commons The Anguish of Saving Endangered Scholars
One foundation's struggle to rescue intellectuals from the Nazis—while leaving others behind
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Wikipedia How Institutions Take Risks
The Rockefeller Foundation's Judith Rodin on saving European scholars and building more resilient societies.
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Reuters 'Thank God for the Saudis': ISIS, Iraq, and the Lessons of Blowback
U.S lawmakers encouraged officials in Riyadh to arm Syrian rebels. Now that strategy may have created a monster in the Middle East.
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Reuters/Goran Tomasevic A Question for Obama's Syria Critics: What Are the Alternatives?
The civil war is horrific. But a strategy superior to Obama's has yet to emerge.
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SKsogang/Flickr China's Latest Food Scandal: Fox-Tainted Donkey Meat
Walmart has yanked the compromised meat, a venerated dish in parts of the country.
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Reuters Biden’s 330-Minute Balancing Act in China
Why didn't Shinzo Abe urge Joe Biden to clamp down on Beijing? Because Japan's prime minister knew the vice president wouldn't.
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Reuters What John Kerry Should Have Said in Egypt
America’s chief diplomat failed to condemn the military’s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. And the stakes couldn’t be bigger.
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Jacquelyn Martin/Reuters Still Sergeant Hagel After All These Years: A Talk With the Defense Secretary
From sequestration to Syria, the Pentagon faces tough challenges. How the former senator has adapted.
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Manchin-Heitkamp: The Senate's Compelling Alternative Syria Resolution
A new proposal by two Democrats would avert U.S. strikes if Assad gives up his chemical weapons within 45 days.
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'We Were Bored ... So We Decided to Kill Somebody'
The tragic and internationally embarrassing news out of Oklahoma should shame the state's senators into showing some support for background checks.
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How to Toughen Up Human-Rights Activists and Liberal Interventionists
Why "waffling" on foreign policy is okay
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Why Would the Muslim Brotherhood Believe in Voting Now?
Morsi's ouster and his supporters' oppression is sending a message to young Islamists who previously played by democratic rules that their only real hope is through armed resistance.
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Deception in Counting the Unemployed
One of the ways the Obama administration, as well as many administrations before it, cheat American workers is an institutionalized duplicity about worker employment figures.
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Obama Succeeded in Libya; He's Failing in Syria
Why did the administration's response to the chemical weapons use not involve either punishing the commanders in charge or a strategy to secure the weapons?
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Menendez Blows Smoke on Syria
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Robert Menendez denies that his Committee is overstepping bounds in trying to dictate the direction of U.S. involvement in Syria -- but he is wrong.
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McCain's Benghazi Fishing Trip Lands Gregory Hicks
John McCain has persisted on Benghazi to the point of seeming off his rocker -- until he uncovered someone whom we should have heard from long ago.
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Passion and Book Sales: 'Israeli Apartheid Week' Meets Palgrave
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How Opposition Should Behave: After Chuck Hagel and John Bolton
The nomination fight is done. It's time to move on to challenges that matter and get beyond personality politics.
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Strange Days in the Senate: Could Ted Cruz Do What He Is Asking of Hagel?
Don't all senators make off-the-cuff speeches?