For two-and-a-half centuries, the United States has faced a challenging world. Some of its responses have advanced U.S.

The United States marks the 250 th anniversary of its founding this year. Since 1776, the country has grown from a fragile union of small, loosely connected states with a questionable future to a ...

For decades, the foreign policy elite in both parties insisted that America’s greatness has more to do with Damascus than Detroit, or Baghdad than Bozeman. It was a bipartisan delusion—driven by ...

When it comes to foreign policy, history shows us there are two types of US vice president. A few amass outsized power and influence, like George W. Bush’s second in command, Dick Cheney, who was the ...