The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

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.

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

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

Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.