Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

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.

Today's status symbol is the Palm Pilot; tomorrow's is not having one, because you have a whole staff keeping track of you. It's like a winter coat in Washington: The ultimate status symbol isn't cashmere, it's no coat at all on the snowiest day of the year - because that means you have a car and driver waiting for you, so why do you need a coat?

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.