Time to integrate State Partnership Program in Pentagon planning
As currently used, the program is a missed opportunity, especially when America needs to be strengthening its relationships abroad.
As currently used, the program is a missed opportunity, especially when America needs to be strengthening its relationships abroad.
The new US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, requested the German government to block Iran’s Mahan Air from flying within German airspace and deny it landing rights in the country bec...
Last month, a Politico investigation ignited a firestorm by chargi...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not happy. The government he backed in Ukraine has collapsed. The Ukrainian leader he favored, Viktor Yanukovych is on the run, a...
It’s not often that a 70-year-old political dispute plays a role in a contemporary political campaign. But that’s precisely what is happening in the race for president of the Czech Re...
Vaclav Havel is turning over in his grave.
Saudi Arabia, China, and Iran ban books. Why are they being honored on the European book-fair circuit?
The Czech Republic debates artistic freedom—again.
In 1985, then dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel, who died Sunday at the age of 75, wrote an essay...
When Barack Obama campaigned for president in 2008, he promised to “cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.” The word “unproven,” folks worried, could be used...
Ten months on, the Arab explosion has shown its truer – more nuanced and complicated – colors.
Britain, Germany and France are among EU countries so far participating in the Durban III anti-racism conference in New York. The main political declaration from Durban I, which formed t...
The Obama administration continues to burn America's allies in its pursuit to please our foes. The most recently burned is the Czech Republic. In 2009 the Obama administration pulle...
When the Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago, it did not fall from sheer wear and tear of tyranny. People actively chose to destroy it. They tore down that iconic wall not only with pickaxes, hamm...
Because of the sense of urgency repeatedly communicated by this column as well as the parallel efforts of other "Africa hands," the precarious situation of Nigeria – which I have described...
Ed Epstein has stayed on the case and has done the 9/11 Commission one better: he has actually conducted something resembling an investigation into whether the top hijacker met with in Prague wit...
The president links Iraq and al Qaeda — and the usual suspects moan.