Why can’t the United States quit Saudi Arabia?

Their agenda should not be to restore the national security status quo but to overhaul it.

Neoconservative hawkishness may be on its way out, but that doesn’t make the president's foreign policy less dangerous.

His presidency sometimes makes historic changes possible. But his ego always torpedoes them.

As he manicures his political reputation, the Pentagon carries on with the buzzword-heavy culture of killing he gave it.

A radioactive mess near the Arctic Circle suggests our next superpower arms race will be even more foolish than the last one.

Banned by Israel and demonized by Trump, she's been fighting business as usual in Congress' hidebound foreign policy club.

A journey through the Land of Enchantment, where the now-dead sex trafficker and his co-conspirators found a haven for radioactive secrets.

The deadly disease is a security threat only because it's neglected as a social justice issue.

The decision to revoke Kashmir's special status is part of a ghastly—and popular—agenda for Delhi's hard-right Hindu government.

His withdrawal from the INF Treaty will spur a rush to build new arsenals with no plan for how to use them.

The myth of the mighty warrior-state has enchanted societies for thousands of years. Now it fuels a global fascist movement.

An Afghanistan veteran reckons with growing up on G.I. Joe and growing tired of American war drums.

There's a widening gap between Washington's bipartisan militarism and veterans' bipartisan war-skepticism.

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

Postcards from a homeland outpost where Native Americans, Japanese-Americans, and now lone migrant children have been enemies of the state.

#UnwantedIvanka and the equally omnipresent Jared aren't just meme-able jokes, they're conduits for graft and possible threats to national security.

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

There's nothing progressive about distilling war's ravages down to a half-baked, Adam Smith–style exercise in taxpayer burden-sharing.

As tensions rise, an unprecedented military briefing by a hawkish secretary of state throws the chain of command into doubt.