There may be good reasons to close down Guantanamo, but that’s no simple task, and the both President and the country have more urgent problems.

If polls were held tomorrow, AfD could be the official opposition.

The ugly political spat highlights a deep strategic divide.

Six weeks of aerial bombardments have not dislodged ISIS from its strongholds in Iraq.

Francis Fukuyama and Karl Eikenberry make the case for learning from Britain’s historic example in Europe and pursuing a similar “offshore balancing” strategy in the Middle East.

Brazil’s Presidential elections could determine whether the country maintains its “Bolivarian” sympathies, or moves toward the U.S. and EU.

The AP U.S. History test’s largest customer says “no thanks” to the controversial recent revisions.

A State Dept. spokeswoman says that the Administration is open to talking with Iran about ISIS, though opposed to “coordination.” These words are likely to annoy the Sunnis—exactly the people whom Obama is trying to recruit to fight ISIS.

From alcoholics and drug addicts to divorced parents, the terror group finds recruits among the troubled and vulnerable in Turkey.

Catalan, Venetian, and Tyrolean independence movements find inspiration in Scotland.