Brent Scowcroft, a model national security adviser, taught us much about U.S. foreign policy

The truth is that his tenure as secretary of state was often rocky, and as full of setbacks as acclaim.

Alone among US President George W. Bush’s senior advisers, Colin Powell did not push for the costly, ill-advised Iraq War, and it would be misreading history to hold him responsible for it. He remain…

There’s something farcical—but entirely rational—about the way authoritarians such as Egypt’s Sisi invoke legal justifications for repression.

Diplomacy could well come to occupy center stage for a president who relishes summitry.