The political crisis continued on Saturday with Sadr threatening renewed protests.

I like the President of the State of Israel, Reuven ("Rubi") Rivlin. I like him very much. This may seem a bit strange, since he is a man of the Right. He is a member of the Likud party. He believes in what is called in Hebrew "the whole of the Land of...

(Second of two articles) A recent two-part series in The New York Times laid out in detail the pivotal role that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton played in President Obama’s decision to join in France and Britain’s 2011 military campaign against longtime Libyan...

What if a presidential candidate threw a political rally, and nobody came? What if a government held an election, and nobody voted? What if that same government started a war, and nobody participated, whether in body or in spirit? These questions are related. Election...

Only 17 deaths were reported on Friday, as the premier warned against the political crisis brewing.

On April 10, John Kerry became the first Secretary of State to visit Hiroshima, Japan. While there, he also toured the memorial and museum dedicated to the 1945 atomic bombing of the city. Then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visited years before, but Kerry is still...

This week, SU-24 fighter-bombers buzzed a U.S. destroyer in the Baltic Sea. The Russian planes carried no missiles or bombs. Message: What are you Americans doing here? In the South China Sea, U.S. planes overfly, and U.S. warships sail inside, the territorial limits...

In an editorial in the print edition of Reason, Matt Welch takes me to task for “celebrating” the candidacy of Donald Trump, who he calls a “false prophet of anti-interventionism.” Reason’s editor cites one of my more hopeful predictions about the beneficial...

Originally posted at TomDispatch. At the moment, there are a maximum of 3,870 U.S. military personnel (or 7,740 actual boots on the ground) in Iraq supporting the war against the Islamic State. That’s the “official cap” imposed by the Obama...

Parliament voted to dismiss their speaker.