Matthew Yglesias

We should be paying attention to the very real cuts Secretary Gates has proposed to outdated, oversized Cold War-era projects.

The members of Congress calling for the United States to set a time table for Iran to suspend its uranium-enrichment program are missing the point.

Why do we need another surge in Afghanistan? Because we’ve done nothing but resort to surges in the past.

Israeli consensus on priorities is dangerously out of line with reality.

The world needs a coordinated response to the current economic crisis, in which each country commits to undertake stimulus that’s appropriate to the size of its economy and to its position in the global balance of trade.

The Obama administration marks the beginning of the end of the war in Iraq. But it’s less clear what it means for the larger “war on terror.”

Absent external pressure, the internal logic of politics tends to point toward momentary conflict escalating out of control. But playing that role effectively requires political commitment.

Two years ago the United States intervened in East African politics in a way that has created the pirate problem and is breeding a new generation of anti-American jihadists.

In a Dec. 1 interview with ABC News’ Charlie Gibson, Bush said that “the biggest regret” of his presidency was “the intelligence failure in Iraq.” In other words, his biggest regret wasn’t regret over anything he did but rather regret over something that was done to him.

Our relationships with the countries of the EU have been marred by a lack of actual diplomacy from the Bush administration.