The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to produce an effect in line with White House policies rather than giving a full picture of a particular situation.

The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them.

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.