Kathy Gilsinan
She was previously an editor at World Politics Review.
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Philippe Wojazer / Reuters A Warlord Rises in Libya
And Trump is praising him.
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Desmond Boylan / AP Trump’s Venezuela Policy: Slow Suffocation
The administration is pressuring other countries to tighten the noose on Nicolás Maduro. But his backers have the upper hand.
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Reuters The U.S. Escalates Even Further Against Iran—To What End?
Declaring the country’s most powerful security services a terrorist organization is just the Trump administration’s latest move in a long pressure campaign against Iran.
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Patrick Semansky / Associated Press Trump Learns to Live With NATO—And Vice Versa
There are arguments over spending, and all manner of other issues. But the 70-year-old alliance has seen bad times before.
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Giuseppe Cacace / AFP / Getty Images The ‘Caliphate’ Is Gone. Where’s the ‘Caliph’?
As the war on the Islamic State moves into a new phase, its leadership tries to adapt.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Patrick Shanahan’s Endless Limbo
He’s still a contender for the top job at the Department of Defense. But the more he’s in the public eye, the more his obstacles mount.
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Felipe Dana / AP The ‘Caliphate’ Is Dead, but Americans Might Not Be Any Safer
Why a terrorist group with land looked so threatening to the United States
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Ariana Cubillos / AP The U.S. Is Running Low on Options to Force Maduro Out
The Trump administration has already deployed visa restrictions, sanctions, and even an embargo on Venezuelan oil. What else is left?
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Menahem Kahana / AFP / Getty Trump's Golan Announcement Was No Impulse Tweet
The push for Trump to make such a move has been going on for more than a year, due to parallel efforts by Israeli officials and members of Congress.
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Cliff Owen / AP Trying to Kill the Iran Deal Could End Up Saving It
Trump administration officials are publicly united on their policy of punishing the Islamic Republic. But cracks are showing over just how far to go.
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Hadi Mizban / AP What Is ISIS Without Land?
The terror group’s about to lose its “state.” That doesn’t mean it’s defeated.
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Ozan Kose / AFP / Getty Images How White-Supremacist Violence Echoes Other Forms of Terrorism
Their enemies are different, but their tactics are often the same.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters The Impossible Job of Speaking Truth to Trump
How do you offer intelligence to a president who’s not interested—and keep your job?
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Michael Sohn / AP The Trump Administration Can’t Get a United Front Against Iran
But the Warsaw conference did bring together Gulf Arabs and Israel against their common enemy.
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Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters Trump’s Affinity for Strongmen Has a Big Exception
Trump campaigned against overseas interventions, and he has a reputation for being friendly with some authoritarian rulers. Now he wants Venezuela’s Maduro gone.
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Evan Vucci / AP In 1995, the U.S. Declared a State of Emergency. It Never Ended.
Trump recently renewed the terrorism state of emergency, which is just one of roughly 30 ongoing national emergencies in the U.S.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters America Still Doesn’t Know What to Do With Terrorism Suspects
Some pre-9/11 plotters have not yet been brought to justice, even as a new generation of suspects is taking their place.
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Mark Meyer / Reuters America Scrambles to Catch Up With Chinese and Russian Weapons
Trump’s new missile-defense strategy adds up to an effort to solve a political problem with expensive hardware.
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Spc. Zoe Garbarino / U.S. Army via AP The Deadliest Day for the U.S. in Syria
Trump says ISIS is defeated, but an Islamic State attack in Syria on Wednesday killed four Americans.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty The Buck Stops Over There
The president loves splashy displays of military might. But when something goes wrong, he blames his generals.
