The Iraq Study Group, a 10-member, bipartisan commission chaired by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and former Congressman Lee Hamilton of Indiana, is soon expected to present President Bush with a set of recommendations as to the next steps the U.S. should take in Iraq...

The New York Times reported on Jan. 11 that the FBI “began investigating whether President Trump had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests” soon after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017. In other words, the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation on the president.

Nuclear reductions and disarmament are not necessarily smart ideas. Even with the successful elimination of nuclear weapons, the tasks of strategy – deterrence, extended deterrence, and arms control – do not go away.

Democracy has been in a global recession for most of the last decade. Yet the picture is not entirely bleak. We have not seen “a third reverse wave.” The key imperative in the near term is to work to reform and consolidate the democracies that have emerged during the third wave—the majority of which remain illiberal and unstable, if they remain democratic at all. It is vital that democrats in the established democracies not lose faith. Democrats have the better set of ideas. Democracy may be receding somewhat in practice, but it is still globally ascendant in peoples’ values and aspirations.

Listen as Paul Gregory talks about the Crisis in Ukraine

More than 60 world leaders gathered at a White House summit Wednesday to discuss how to counter violent extremism. In opening remarks, President Obama said we must discredit violent ideologies and find "...new ways to amplify the voices of peace and tolerance and inclusion."

Sir, Gideon Rachman, in “Russian hearts, minds, and refrigerators” (February 17), writes: “Rather than engage the Putin government where it is relatively strong, on the battlefield, it makes more sense to hit Russia at its weak point: the economy.”