Gagging Grenell was a bad play for the Romney team because it guaranteed the issue wouldn't go away. The only way to dispel concerns about the man's fitness for the job was to let him do his job. Muzzling him until he resigned was the worst possible way to handle it because all it did was feed crocodiles like Fischer.

Robert Earle's narrative conveys little evidence of serious planning or policymaking.

Congress is right to honor Porter Goss, but it should also let the director of national intelligence continue to grow in stature.

The George W. Bush administration is urging the U.S. Senate to consent this summer to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, a complex and sprawling treaty that governs shipping, navigation, mining, fishing, and other ocean activities. Deputy secretary of state John Negroponte and deputy defense secretary Gordon England...

The Asia-Pacific region is undergoing continuous change as China, India, and Japan emerge as great powers with a wide array of political, economic, and military interests. How will these emerging powers compete with each other--and the United States--for primacy in Asia? Will economic growth sustain the rise of these economic...

Democrats, who vengefully persecute those who exposed their folly, demand the rejection of people who have proven their ability to lead.

The Bush administration's advocacy of the Convention on the Law of the Sea is baffling.

Ambassador John Negroponte should impress on Iraq's Iyad Allawi the importance of advancing national elections, not on reincorporating the old Sunni military elite into a new army.