Hashim Thaci has long been a darling of the Washington establishment. In 1999, while veteran of Croatia's Serbicide Agim Ceku managed the "military" operations of the "Kosovo Liberation Army," Thaci was the KLA's public face. Kissing Madeleine Albright, hugging Tony...

In what a Washington Post columnist describes as a rout of Rand Paul isolationism, the Senate just voted overwhelmingly to send another $1.5 billion in foreign aid to Egypt. The House voted 400-20 to impose new sanctions on Iran's oil exports, two days before Iran's...

America has always had two ways of stopping the undesirable course of enemy countries and switching their track: the overt and the covert. Overt means the Pentagon and covert means the C.I.A. Much has been written about the muting of Obama’s overt actions...

During July, Antiwar.com, in this column, compiled 1,336 deaths and 2,526 wounded from various media sources. At least 21 Iraqis were killed today, and another 30 were wounded.

The news that Edward Snowden has – finally – been granted political asylum in Russia has provoked the Usual Suspects into bloviating the Usual Nonsense: Gee, how come Snowden didn't go to a "free" country, you know, just like America? Instead, he's gone to Russia,...

When Argentina defaulted on its national debt in 2001, US hedge funds swooped in to buy the nation’s bonds at pennies on the dollar, confident they would eventually prevail in the US legal system and force the country to pay out in full. That battle is set to...

The Washington Post editorial page under Fred Hiatt has long been a neoconservative bastion rivaling the Wall Street Journal, supporting every war to come down the pike while justifying every intrusion on personal rights as long as it might plausibly be justified on...

Last week, Justin Amash, the two-term libertarian Republican congressman from Michigan, joined with John Conyers, the 25-term liberal Democratic congressman from the same state, to offer an amendment to legislation funding the National Security Agency (NSA). If...

The number of seemingly random attacks was high again today. In them, at least 49 people were killed and 83 more were wounded.

Within days of the inauguration of Hassan Rouhani as Iran’s new president, both Tehran and Washington appear to be sending positive signals to each other. The latest came Monday in a flurry of reports from Iran that its former ambassador to the United Nations,...