Israel’s new parliament will have fewer settlers than the last one did—which may mitigate any cool-down in the relationship between Washington and Jerusalem.

Greece passed an expensive ‘humanitarian bill’ with a hefty price tag, even as its government is mired in a severe cash crunch. The EU is livid.

Yesterday’s attack in Tunis is a serious setback to the only country that has emerged from the Arab Spring better off than it was before.

It is, of course, Netanyahu’s right to reject the two-state solution. But given how Americans tend to see the world, doing so will have consequences for the bilateral relationship.

Throughout history, movements have sprung up denying the profound discontinuities between Christians and Jews, as well as between Protestants and Catholics.

The State Department’s attempt to walk back Secretary Kerry’s remarks on Assad is just the latest reminder: the Administration’s Middle East policy is thoroughly muddled.

The White House is finding itself increasingly hemmed in by Congress on Iran, as Democrats appear ready to support a bill the Obama administration desperately wants shelved.

As Kerry comes around to negotiating with Syria’s dictator, the French firmly say “non”.

Immigration Outside the Law By Hiroshi Motomura Oxford University Press, 2014, 360 pp., $29.95Hiroshi Motomura, professor of law at UCLA, has written the most thoughtfully and honestly argued brief for a liberal immigration regime in the United States that one is likely to find.  Exploring the implications of the Supreme Court’s landmark 1982 decision in […]

A challenge for Western policy: Russia continues to hold a strong spoiler hand in Ukraine.