Why has Obama gone absent without leave on Afghanistan?

What matters for China is not whether Westerners believe the system is cracking. The question is: How do the Chinese view their own system?

Washington Post editorial writer and liberal blogger Jonathan Capehart is puzzled. Why does the "non-issue" of Harvard law professor and Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's Native American ancestry "require so much attention?" he asked last week.

When Warren was teaching at Pennsylvania, Texas and...

What exactly was gained at the talks with Iran last Saturday? Catherine Ashton, EU foreign policy honcho, pronounced the talks “constructive and useful.

The U.S. should strongly discourage the development of the EU as a military power, urge the winding down of its fledgling Rapid Reaction Force, and insist that NATO be the only serious European defense force.

When he was director of central intelligence, Leon Panetta earned a reputation as an energetic advocate for his agency. When he replaced Robert Gates at the Pentagon, it was reasonable to hope that Panetta would continue to play the role of a senior statesman.

We need a Republican president — not to fix the economy, but to get the credit.

Herman Cain's stance as a non-politician who refuses to obey the rules of the great game of politics is at least momentarily a political asset in a year when opinion about conventional politicians of both parties is near an all-time low.