On April 21, the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland and the National Iranian American Council sponsored a "Presidential Surrogates Foreign Policy Debate" between former Assistant Secretary of Defense Larry Korb, a foreign policy advisor and surrogate for the Bernie Sanders campaign, and...

Until recently, the U.S. relationship to Saudi Arabia has been one of those things that we're not allowed to do anything about. There's death and taxes, and the U.S. is joined at the hip to Saudi Arabia. Move along, nothing to see here.

But the world has changed. We're...

Whatever dwindling hope remained that Trumpism would somehow magically go away just got two more blows in the last few days. First, Donald Trump got a hero's welcome at AIPAC. Then, Trump exploited a terrorist attack in Brussels to generate headlines with calls for...

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee [AIPAC] policy conference is in Washington March 20-22. All presidential candidates are invited. Hillary Clinton is going.

Bernie Sanders could use this opportunity to be a truth-teller to AIPAC. When President Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice spoke at AIPAC last year,...

In Sunday night's Democratic Presidential debate, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton agreed that to accept his responsibility for the poisoned water crisis in Flint, Michigan's Republican governor, Rick Snyder, should resign:

Sanders repeated his call for the Republican governor to resign before Clinton spoke.

"Amen to that," she...

Every American on the left knows that when labor leader Eugene Debs ran for President in 1920 as a socialist, he got a million votes.

I don't know if Howard Zinn would approve this message, but by this standard, Team Sanders is arguably kicking Debs' butt. Bernie Sanders has...

On June 28, 2009, when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, democratically elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown by a military coup. The United Nations, the European Union, and the Organization of American States condemned the coup, and on July 5, Honduras was suspended from the OAS.

Under...

Shebab in Arabic means "young people." When I was a student at Birzeit University in Palestine many moons ago, we used it all the time. Like, a bunch of young people are lingering somewhere when someone thinks we should be moving on to the next activity. "Yalla, ya shebab, let's...

"Where are Sanders' foreign policy advisors?" screams the establishment media in chorus.

Sanders himself provided one important answer: not Henry Kissinger. As Dan Froomkin pointed out at the Intercept, where someone stands on Henry Kissinger tells us a great deal about where they stand on...

An unfortunate fact of political debate is that one often feels compelled to state and re-state what one thinks should be obvious, because a bunch of folks are apparently having success at pretending that something which seems obviously true is not true.

Right now, a bunch of people seem...

In an interview from Davos with Bloomberg TV on January 20, Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue, a top lobbyist for the pro-corporate-power Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] agreement, assured viewers that if Hillary Clinton wins the Presidential election, Clinton will support the TPP, even though she opposes it now....

Watching the fourth Democratic debate in South Carolina on January 17, many people understandably got the impression that Hillary Clinton was campaigning for President Obama's third term. But in the aftermath of the debate, her team attacked Bernie Sanders for supporting President Obama's efforts to engage Iran.

The attack...

Hillary Clinton is pushing back against criticism of her vote as a Senator in 2002 to authorize the Iraq war, The Hill reports.

"I have a much longer history than one vote, which I said was a mistake because of the way that it was done and how...

During the last Democratic presidential debate, Bernie Sanders did something that you don't see every day from politicians of either political party. He criticized the Pentagon budget.

SANDERS: But here's an issue that we also should talk about. We have a $600 billion military budget. It is a...

As Katrina vanden Heuvel has written, "The conventional wisdom is that [Hillary] Clinton benefits as voters grow more concerned about national security and terrorism. She is the most experienced of all the candidates." But, vanden Heuvel argued, "as we have seen on domestic issues, experience is a mixed...

In the salad days of my youth, you could count on liberal Democrats to be steadfast supporters of action by the U.N. Security Council on matters of war and peace. Liberal Democrats were once so reliable on U.N.-defense that young leftist scold Phil Ochs could make fun of us by...

Here's two things we know for sure from key advances of the Obama Administration's foreign policy: our relationships with other countries aren't set in stone, and the choices aren't merely "friend" and "foe." We can shake hands without getting married, and we can pivot away without getting divorced. We can...

From time to time, people ask me where I'm from. "I'm from Arkansas," I say brightly.

"You don't sound like you're from Arkansas," the people say suspiciously. (I think this roughly translates as: "You speak English like a Chicago Jew.")

"No, really," I say. "You can check my birth...

Remember Republican Defense Secretary Robert Gates' 2011 "farewell address" at West Point?

"In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as General MacArthur...

On Sunday night, President Obama addressed the nation on "keeping the American people safe."

Here was President Obama's bullet point on diplomacy:

Fourth, with American leadership, the international community has begun to establish a process  --  and timeline  --  to pursue ceasefires and a political...