WASHINGTON -- What is America doing in the Middle East? I hear that question being asked increasingly as the Obama administration finally moves toward military support for the Syrian opposition. People are rightly looking for a strategy that ...

WASHINGTON -- Journalists have a professional commitment to the idea that more debate is better, so we instinctively side with leakers. But I'm skeptical about some of the claims of Edward Snowden, the young NSA contractor who leaked secrets about...

WASHINGTON -- People are looking for the wrong "scandal" about Attorney General Eric Holder. The problem with Holder is the plain fact that, in the judgment of a wide range of legal colleagues, he has been a mediocre attorney general.

Holder's ...

WASHINGTON -- Think of Susan Rice as the president's assertive kid sister. Where he's cool and deferential, she's boisterous and sometimes abrasive. Where he avoids public confrontation, she often relishes it. They have different styles, but make ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials describe a common frustration in dealing with China over the past decade. Beijing wants to be recognized as a rising economic power but refuses to be an active partner in maintaining security. Beijing has seemed to ...

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State John Kerry's cardinal rule in trying to restart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has been that he won't talk publicly about the details, so it's difficult to know how he's doing. But he's still hard at it, and...