Building bridges with with allies’ elites is one of the critical tasks of an ambassador—especially in the face of concerted efforts by revisionist powers to gin up public feeling against the United States.

Abdel Fatah el-Sisi’s new choice for National Security Adviser demonstrates the growing distance between Washington and Cairo.

The papers are full of news of a potential rapprochement between China and Japan.

A review of Joel Kotkin’s latest book, a look at disintegrating Libya, and the possibility that the midterms mean a fresh look at military spending.

Libya’s supreme court has dissolved the UN backed parliament. Libya is a broken nation, and the United States broke it.

Tenacious demographer Joel Kotkin offers a flawed but formidable critique of America’s new oligarchy: Silicon Valley tech giants and the urban “gentry liberals” who support them.

The midterms are over. Here’s what we wrote about in their wake.

A filibuster-proof majority in the Senate in support of the Keystone XL pipeline may force the President’s hand on the controversial project.

Following months of ineffective student protests, and under threat of arrest and imprisonment, the youth of the Muslim Brotherhood are increasingly considering the violent tactics and ideology of ISIS in their fight against Sisi and the Egyptian government.

A sermon preached on the eve of Yom Kippur by a Conservative rabbi in Seattle makes for some startling reading.