Earlier today, I passed along the exciting news that senior State Department official Wendy Sherman had once again helped deliver the North Koreans to the negotiating table, a reprise of her Nork work of the Clinton years.  And indeed, the deal done looks a lot like the deal Mrs Sherman did back then, except….

My secretary raced into my office to say that the Pentagon was on fire. I went to a window and saw a great cloud of smoke and fire rising just across the Potomac River from the iconic building's western side. We were under attack. We had no clue what was coming next.

The “strategic guidance” announced this week from the commander in chief to the Department of Defense is, make no mistake about it, an order to retreat.

With hindsight, perhaps Cameron’s decision to intervene militarily in Libya to prevent a humanitarian disaster and remove Muammar Gaddafi’s regime should not have been a surprise to anyone.

For years, business has been content to stay above the political fray of school improvement, happily delivering dollars to educational leaders when called upon. But if business is truly serious about driving reform, it needs to recognize that it is uniquely positioned to step up in more consequential ways than donating supplies or sponsoring scholarships.

Secretary of State Colin Powell says the U.S. cannot accept the Ukraine election result as legitimate and called for an investigation. He warned that if there is no investigation, there could be implications for U.S. relations with Ukraine.

Soon-to-be former secretary of state Colin Powell's over-enthusiastic advocacy at home left him little time to do advocacy for the United States abroad.