A U.S. recommitment to Africa would profit all involved, so long as policymakers settle in for the long haul and take their cues from Alexander Hamilton.

What a silly set of lies about a doctored YouTube clip in the Oliver Stone documentary tells us about how Putin gets his information.

Some 10,000 Ethiopian Jews owe their lives to Jerry Weaver, an FSO with swash and buckle to spare.

Today’s authoritarians are just as threatened by pluralism and dissenting ideas as the single-party states that preceded them.

Oliver Stone’s interviews with Vladimir Putin tell us more about Putin’s admirers than about the Russian President himself.

What the loss of Theresa May’s Chief of Staff means for the Brexit negotiations.

We know little of his political opinions, but there’s much we can learn of them from the recurrent themes of his works.

American security depends on development as well as diplomacy and defense.

Volume nine of The Pumphrett Papers.

The Russians claim to have killed ISIS’s leader and U.S.-backed forces close in on Raqqa, but the time to make difficult decisions in Eastern Syria is fast approaching.