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Illustration by Robert Neubecker Rethinking Putin’s Russia
U.S. policy toward Moscow hasn't worked for two decades. How can we fix it?
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Jason Reed/Reuters After Ukraine, Will the U.S. Become an Energy Superpower?
The Russian chill and Mideast instability are boosting bipartisan support for domestic energy production.
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Jim Young/Reuters A Tougher Hillary Clinton Distances Herself From Obama
The former secretary of state's comments on Russia and Crimea suggest she's trying to create a foreign-policy buffer ahead of the 2016 campaign.
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Wikimedia Commons The GOP's Foreign-Policy Problem
After the crisis in Ukraine, international affairs could play a big role in 2016—to the Republicans' disadvantage.
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Reuters NSA Review Panel Member: Expand Snooping, Don't Curtail It
Michael Morrell, a former acting CIA director, says surveillance should include email and not just telephone metadata.
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Reuters How Janet Yellen Can Save the Economy
The nominee to lead the Federal Reserve is an old-school progressive economist with two guiding passions: reducing unemployment and reining in Wall Street.
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Reuters Paul Volcker: First He Challenged Obama, Then He Changed Wall Street
How the former Fed Chair and Gary Gensler created the "Volcker Rule."
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Reuters Will the World See Another Mandela?
The South African's distinctive model of transformative leadership
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Reuters Bibi Netanyahu: The Non-Negotiator
What's behind the Israeli prime minister's obstructionism?
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Reuters Is the Iran Deal Obama's Nixon-in-China Moment?
The president's negotiation could remake global politics—but he faces recriminations from domestic opponents and foreign allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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Associated Press Elizabeth Warren: Not Ready for Presidential Prime Time
Is there a huge public demand for a populist crusade for financial reform—or is that just liberal wonks' pipe dream?
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Department of State The Next Bin Laden
Al-Qaeda's new mastermind favors small, opportunistic strikes over spectacular attacks. Are we scaling back the NSA at the very moment we need it most?
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Jason Lee/Reuters Will China Really Become the World's Greatest Power? Don't Bet On It
On the eve of an important political conference, the country faces a set of financial, political, and environmental challenges that could end its rise and possibly lead to the collapse of Communist Party rule.
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Reuters The Case for a Grand Bargain With Iran
Sure, it won't be easy. But if the U.S. wants to achieve anything in the Middle East, it needs Iranian cooperation.
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Reuters Pakistani Officials Signed a Secret Agreement Authorizing Drone Strikes
Despite the new prime minister's criticism, officials say the country's military approved the strikes
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Reuters Is Kerry a Better Secretary of State Than Clinton?
In the last two months, he has reopened talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, negotiated a chemical weapons ban in Syria, found common ground with Russia, and met in a historic sit-down with Iran's foreign minister.
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Reuters Janet Yellen's Triple Mandate: Jobs, Inflation, and Wall Street
The new choice to lead the Federal Reserve could be another in a long line of tough female regulators who have boldly confronted a mostly male world.
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Reuters The Syria Deal That Could Have Been
Last year, the UN envoy had carved a path for a government "transition." But the White House and Hillary Clinton rejected it.
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White House Washington Negotiates With Terrorists—Why Can't Obama Talk to the GOP?
The White House should adopt the same policy America applies to real jihadists: Don't negotiate at all in public, but search for every back channel you can.
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Associated Press Sarah Palin With an Ivy League Pedigree: The Brazenness of Ted Cruz
The Texan is content to alienate voters, GOP leaders, and even Tea Party allies -- but his style is the logical result of repeated conservative failures to rein in government.
