The inability of U.S. diplomats to explain Trump and his worldview to their foreign interlocutors is likely to be a more serious problem for American foreign policy than any early flubs by the President-elect.

Well-intentioned liberals and refugee advocates are learning a hard lesson: the only way to deal with refugee crisis is to have a foreign policy that seeks to prevent them in the first place.

A good reminder that however well radical chic plays in liberal enclaves, it doesn’t work well with the public at large.

The truth is that the death of Fidel resolves little.

Fidel Castro wanted an independent path for Cuba. He leaves a shattered society and a desperately poor country behind him, less able to shape its destiny than it was in 1959.

Thinking about the meaning of the holiday.

They weren’t married—just dating—but the end of the relationship augurs an important geopolitical turning point.

The countries of Central and Eastern Europe face the starkest challenges to stability in the wake of the election of Donald Trump.

Yet another election gets more unpredictable.

What a Kissinger-inspired strategy might look like.