• Shields and Brooks on Trump’s GOP pushback, Russia probe grand jury

    Shields and Brooks on Trump’s GOP pushback, Russia probe grand jury

    Aug 04, 2017 11:22 PM EST

    ... less day-to-day melodrama than we have had over the last six months. And, personally, I think that would be good for all of us. There are limitations. He's -- another shrewd thing is, he said I'm not going to try to control the president. I'm just ...

  • Carter national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski dies

    Carter national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski dies

    May 27, 2017 02:39 PM EST

    ... on Communism in the 1950s. Throughout his career, he would be affiliated with moderate-to-liberal groups, including the Rand Corp., the Council on Foreign Relations, Amnesty International and the NAACP. Cautioning in lectures of fractures within the Communist movement, Brzezinski emerged in the mid-1960s as a defender of ...

  • VP Pence aims to reassure Australia after tense Trump call

    VP Pence aims to reassure Australia after tense Trump call

    Apr 21, 2017 01:35 PM EST

    ... told reporters that they did not expect the refugees issue to be raised in the meeting, describing it as "ancient history." The fallout has left relations between the U.S. and Australia at their lowest point since the Vietnam War, when Australia's then-Prime Minister Gough Whitlam criticized a ...

  • Can the president attack another country without Congress?

    Can the president attack another country without Congress?

    Apr 07, 2017 11:03 AM EST

    ... 850175327582265345 IS INFORMING THEM ENOUGH? DON'T THEY GET A SAY? The War Powers Resolution, enacted in 1973, long after American troops began fighting in Vietnam, required the president to consult with Congress before sending U.S. armed forces into combat unless there already had been a declaration of war ...

  • McCain sees Russian hacking as threat, Trump calls reports of such interference 'ridiculous'

    McCain sees Russian hacking as threat, Trump calls reports of such interference 'ridiculous'

    Dec 19, 2016 05:08 PM EST

    WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump is the business titan who has spoken appreciatively of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Republican Sen. John McCain is the tough-talking national security hawk who warns that Russian interference in the U.S. election threatens to "destroy democracy." McCain, chairman of the Armed Services Committee ...

  • Carter's Asia trip spotlights issues for next Pentagon head

    Carter's Asia trip spotlights issues for next Pentagon head

    Dec 05, 2016 06:24 PM EST

    ... the region about North Korea's nuclear ambitions. Carter also will hand off to the next defense secretary unfinished diplomatic business, including deployment of a U.S. missile defense system in South Korea that North Korea and China consider provocative, and uncertain military relations with a longtime treaty ally, the ...

  • How Fidel Castro maintained a communist stronghold

    How Fidel Castro maintained a communist stronghold

    Nov 26, 2016 10:22 PM EST

    ... history and what it means now, I’m joined here in the studio by Carla Robbins, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She's also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist formerly with the "New York Times," "The Wall Street Journal" and "U.S. News & World Report ...

  • What Henry Kissinger thinks about Obama, Trump and China

    What Henry Kissinger thinks about Obama, Trump and China

    Nov 22, 2016 12:26 AM EST

    At 93, Henry Kissinger is still one of the most influential -- and controversial -- foreign policy figures in America, says Jeffrey Goldberg, Atlantic editor-in-chief. The former secretary of state recently joined Goldberg for a conversation about the Obama legacy, the president-elect and more. Judy Woodruff reports as part of a collaboration between The Atlantic...

  • Column: How cities and states are leading the fight for more beneficial trade

    Column: How cities and states are leading the fight for more beneficial trade

    Nov 02, 2016 07:06 PM EST

    "The right question is not whether trade is good or bad for the United States," writes Edward Alden in his book "Failure to Adjust," but "whether the United States has used the new opportunities created by international trade to boost American living standards while minimizing the costs for those who lose out to import competition."

  • Amid anti-immigration wave, some small towns welcome refugees with open arms

    Amid anti-immigration wave, some small towns welcome refugees with open arms

    Aug 05, 2016 08:52 PM EST

    Small towns from Montana to Georgia are increasingly accepting refugees as they grapple with shrinking and aging populations.