A conversation with Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel on post-Bush America.

The Chinese Communist Party’s scheme for keeping political control after the Tiananmen crisis is now the problem.

One senses a ghastly inevitability about this American adventure—half tragedy, half farce and all folly.

China’s creative, long-range thinking is running circles around the United States.

After several months in which the news from Iraq has steadily if spottily improved, the time has come to think about what just a few months ago seemed unthinkable.

Six suggestions for the next president.

Deep changes in Latin America demand a new U.S. agenda.

We clearly are able to achieve short- to medium-term improvements in the security conditions in the country, but we should have no illusions that we can soon “win” a bigger game.

Lessons from the Mearsheimer and Walt debate.

Such success as we have achieved in Iraq, like the strategic and tactical failures there that went before, is due largely to the (bewilderingly episodic) leadership of President Bush.