Denial of access by al Shabaab militants, and in some cases by other armed militias, is the single greatest obstacle to the provision of humanitarian assistance in Somalia.

Somaliland's election and peaceful transfer of power illuminates a beacon of hope in a part of the world that poses a growing and legitimate security threat to the United States and its allies.

All will agree that there are situations of human suffering that deserve attention, but most are far removed from even the most expansive definition of "national interests."

Faced with falling poll numbers, and wanting the affirmation of the foreign policy elite here and abroad, the president seems to have reversed course.

A new book says that immigration restrictions are economically stupid, politically unsustainable, and morally wrong.

We should talk to our enemies on our own terms and not theirs, and with their captive peoples in mind.

Although this brief survey of five current case studies of UN peacekeeping is necessarily summary in nature, I believe that the evidence forms a sufficient pattern to conclude that the UN is substantially overextended and in danger of becoming more so.

The UNis involved in conflicts, or is considering involvement, where it has neither the authority nor the competence to be effective, and its instinctive reaction to difficulties it has encountered has been simply to do more of the same.