For Barack Obama’s supporters on the left, to say his policy choices have been a disappointment would be an understatement. Explaining how this came about is Jack Goldsmith’s provocative new book.

The problem today is not simply that America is no longer waterboarding the Khalid Skeikh Mohammeds of the world; it is that, outside the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, we are no longer capturing, detaining, and interrogating the Khalid Sheikh Mohammeds of the world at all.

If assassination was most noxious to the progressive left, the fact that a president they supported embraced the strategy has permanently nullified what otherwise would have been a staunchly partisan issue

At the GOP debate on national security and foreign policy Nov. 22, the Republican candidates will weigh in on such hot-button topics as Iran, Iraq, China, and Israel. At the root of their remarks lies an answer to a single question:  What role should America play in the world? It's a question the American people themselves have wrestled with for decades. 

War is either such an evil in itself that the United States should withdraw from its dominant world position or greater causes—such as advancing human freedom—can make war necessary. Two books on justice in war implicitly probe this profound choice.

Because of the Obama administration's reluctance to confront this looming threat, others—such as the Republican presidential candidates—must begin preparing the case for a military strike to destroy Iran's nuclear program.

In the wake of 9/11, the George W. Bush administration has gone to great lengths to protect the United States from terrorist attacks, instituting certain controversial policies that critics have decried as violations of domestic and international laws. From wiretapping to coercive interrogation of suspected terrorists, the administration’s actions have...

Bernard Álvarez, the mouthpiece for Hugo Chávez, attacks the new Republican leadership of the House Foreign Affairs Committee while offering no defense of his government's troubling record.