At the stroke of midnight tonight -- Friday, March 18th, Cindarella's coach might have turned back into a pumpkin and the White House could have shut down the government. But fairy tales are true to form, and so we have a Continuing Resolution that lets everyone live happily ever after...

America does not just have a budget problem -- it has a problem with national deliberation and deadlines.

The NFL needs an extension until March 11th to settle its collective bargaining dispute. The president of the United States needs an extension until March 18th to come up with a...

The long-awaited release of the first ever Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) -- a strategic reassessment of the U.S. foreign affairs establishment -- may well yield a tectonic shift in how American foreign policy is carried out. The operative word is "may." A punch list of significant issues is...

In the dog days of August, when great thoughts are put aside to make way for lighter novels and beach reading, it is easy to forget that America is at war. That is, until you turn on your cell phone or blackberry, for a minute-by-minute account from distant corners of...

The media is having a shining moment in Haiti. At long last, its relevance is clear.

After years of handwringing about the sorry state of news, the cutbacks in foreign coverage, the blurring of lines between news and entertainment, and the dearth of investigative reporting, television has managed to bring...

Judith McHale, the former CEO of Discovery Communications, has been named, subject to Senate confirmation, America's next Undersecretary of Public Diplomacy. When she arrives at the State Department, Ms. McHale will find a stack of new (and expensive) proposals on her desk from various corners of government and the private...

Amidst all the troubles facing American foreign policymakers today -- from the international financial crisis to growing threats from terrorism and failed states -- add the continued decline of American journalism. The economic downturn in the fortunes of traditional U.S. networks and newspapers has slowly eroded coverage of global hot-spots....