How a discredited foreign policy ideology continues to wreak havoc in Washington and around the world

Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo, who urged Trump to kill Qassem Soleimani, are ardent proponents of Christian Zionism.

As the United States staggers toward war, it will try to draw troops from the same poor, rural neighborhoods it always has.

But beyond this week’s false headlines, Trump’s double-dealings and war threats have given Tehran every reason to develop a bomb.

The Soleimani assassination and its aftermath suggest that America's top diplomat is really the viceroy of its national security establishment.

The fatal strike against Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani has destabilized the world, endangered Americans, and thrilled Republican war hawks.

A newly released trove of Iranian intelligence communiqués demonstrates the deeper folly of U.S. adventurism in the Middle East.

Why can’t the United States quit Saudi Arabia?

His dim tweets and rash threats have pinned the U.S. in a corner with Tehran.

The predictable result of the Trump administration's incoherent foreign policy

Lessons from a 2016 naval crisis that could have sunk the nuclear deal and opened a conflict, but didn’t.

To avoid war with Iran, the president needs to haul out his Apprentice-era catchphrase.

High defense costs are one of the surest ways to hasten a great power's decline.

With legislators and public alike focused on Saudi influence, another Gulf country's lobbying efforts are flying under the radar.

Iran has not posed a serious terror threat to the United States since the 1980s. Sunni terrorism, on the other hand, has.

This week's summit in Warsaw is a pale imitation of a serious effort three decades ago.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's reassurance tour of the region isn't going so well.

Three things Mike Pompeo should say in Cairo this week, but probably won't