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For 2010, total military spending is $680 billion, an increase of 3.9 percent, or $26 billion, over 2009. This is not the end of business as usual at the Pentagon.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
Are we incapable of recognizing the simple fact that it is much better for America to have a president who is admired and respected in the world than one who is despised and feared?
Judith Ellis | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics
When it comes to secrecy and international politics, we wink and nod when necessary.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
If any president is going to "cut and run" from an American military engagement he or she better be a Republican. This narrative runs deep in American political discourse.
Kamran Pasha | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
Muslims have always used art, including fiction, to spread the message of Islam. We have just forgotten our own heritage.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
Hillary Clinton vigorously defended her husband's trip to North Korea to help free two imprisoned journalists in an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakari...
Chris Kelly | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
Liz Cheney used to be Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. Now, that job was just made up, but one of the requirements would seem to be to not come off like a cretin.
William Hartung | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
Presidents from John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan, have called for nuclear disarmament. But no president in the nuclear age has spoken of it as often as Barack Obama.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
"Silly season" refers to late summer, when governments go on massive taxpayer-funded vacations all over the world. This year's season could produce a bumper crop of silly.
Michelle Kraus | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
Can't we all take a moment and rejoice in the return of these two young women without throwing rotten tomatoes at our own Madam Secretary of State?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
Euna Lee and Laura Ling are safe at home and in the warm embrace of loved ones and it's hard to feel bad about this. But, since Bill Clinton has a han...
Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
John Bolton told Jon Stewart he wanted America to be the only nation with nuclear weapons. Stewart is the comedian, but this policy is the joke.
Frida Berrigan | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Obama's efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons have also drawn harsh criticism from a chorus of nuclear war theorists intent on scaring the public into opposing the president's disarmament agenda.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
Add Iran to the long list of places Bolton would love to attack.
Washington Post | John R. Bolton | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
With Iran's hard-line mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unmistakably back in control, Israel's decision of whether to use military for...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
President Barack Obama's speech today in Cairo hit all of the right notes and was exactly what he needed to say after eight years of saber rattling, r...
Nathan Gardels | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
Five days before the North Korean nuclear test, Bolton wrote a prescient article in the Wall Street Journal saying that such a test was imminent. I asked Bolton about North Korea's motives.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Bush proved that the blurring of the line that separates Church and State is not only unconstitutional, it is also wholly dysfunctional.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics
You have to hand it to the Wall Street Journal. At a time when the newspaper industry is desperately trying to remind America it's important and relev...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 06.20.2009 | World
The curtain is about to rise again on the long-running nuclear tragicomedy, "North Korea Outwits the United States." Despite Kim Jong Il's explicit th...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
It might be the case that Netanyahu has far more friends in Washington than does the president.
Neil Hicks | Posted 05.16.2009 | World
The United States is in a unique position to seek to persuade its allies to behave more constructively on international human rights issues.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
Obama's promise of a new day in U.S.-Iranian relations must be given the opportunity to bear fruit free from outside intervention.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.31.2009 | Politics
When given the choice between having Barack Obama reach across the aisle to work with the GOP or pursue the policies he advanced during his campaign, a significant majority of Americans want him to stick to his guns (56 percent to 39 percent). And 79 percent of the public wants Republicans to drop the partisanship and work with Obama. No wonder Obama seems to be driving Republicans over the edge, with Tom DeLay calling the president's address to Congress "insane," John Bolton cracking jokes about the nuclear annihilation of Chicago, and Bobby Jindal using his time in the spotlight to rave -- inaccurately -- about wasteful "volcano monitoring" programs. You know times are tough for Republicans when the highlight of CPAC is a two-minute speech delivered by a 13-year old.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics
At last! A bold, new suggestion out of CPAC, courtesy of Mitch McConnell, who suggests that more than anything else, the GOP is the party of "interes...
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Frida Berrigan | Posted 11.04.2009 | World