The failure of Kurdish leaders to fulfill their diplomatic agenda extends beyond the latest Turkish incursion. Turkey's occupations, however, provide the Kurdistan Regional Government with an opportunity.

Barack Obama is obviously scrambling in his attempt to win re-election. He has proclaimed himself the underdog and has given up his pretense of being a pragmatic centrist compromiser in favor of harsh class warfare rhetoric. But it's worth taking note of what he has squandered.

Low mortgage underwriting standards were partially responsible for the collapse of the housing market. Now that standards have been raised to prevent another collapse, there are calls to bring them back down again.

With less than four months until midterm elections, the Democrats are blowing furiously on the fading embers of their electoral coalition and are fighting a rip current of bitterness among many of their core constituencies that have been isolated by Obama's policies.

U.S. under secretary of defense for policy Michèle Flournoy will deliver an address on the new Afghanistan policy.

The Americanization of the Afghan war is a key to victory, but victory in Afghanistan is a single campaign in the long war.

The joint statement released by the Defending Defense Coalition details the devastating impact that the upcoming automatic sequestration would have on the U.S. military and the consequent need for the House of Representatives to pass the reconciliation bill in order to defend national security strategy.