List of U.S. 2012 Election articles
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gingrich Newt Gingrich Carves Out Powerful New Position Under Trump: ‘Chief Planner’
The former House speaker won’t serve in the cabinet — and says the president elect shouldn’t tap other Washington insiders, either. (Too late.)
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mccain John McCain to Serve Sixth Term
John McCain thwarts a challenger and insults from his party's candidate to keep his Senate seat.
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OSKALOOSA, IA - JULY 25: Republican presidential hopeful businessman Donald Trump speaks to guests gathered for a rally on July 25, 2015 in Oskaloosa, Iowa. During his last visit to the state Trump sparked controversy when he said Senator John McCain (R-AZ), a former POW, was not a war hero. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) The Qualities of Command
The President of the United States has many responsibilities, but none is more important than Article Two of the Constitution’s charge that 'The President shall be Commander in Chief...' of our armed forces.
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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 10: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (L) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wait to speak at the "Exempt America from Obamacare" rally, on Capitol Hill, September 10, 2013 in Washington, DC. Some conservative lawmakers are making a push to try to defund the health care law as part of the debates over the budget and funding the federal government. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Rand Paul, Lone Among GOP Hawks, Drops Out of Presidential Race
2016 was supposed to be the year to run against intervention. Then ISIS happened.
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82652693crop Vets Are Furious Sarah Palin Blamed Her Son’s Domestic Violence On PTSD
Track Palin allegedly beat his girlfriend and threatened to kill himself.
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Syrian mourners wave the pre-Baath Syrian flag, now used by the Free Syrian Army, over the bodies of civilians, who were executed and dumped in the Quweiq river, during their burial at a park now renamed "Martyrs of the River" park in the Bustan al-Qasr district of the northern city of Aleppo on January 31, 2013. The bodies of dozens of young men, all executed with a single gunshot, were found in the river this week, adding to the grim list of massacres committed during Syria's 22-month conflict. AFP PHOTO/JM LOPEZ (Photo credit should read JM LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images) The War Over Syria’s War Dead
Assad is routinely accused of murdering 250,000 of his own people. The only problem is that there’s no proof he did.
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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 16: Gen. Lloyd Austin III (L), commander of U.S. Central Command, greets Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) before a hearing about the ongoing U.S. military operations to counter the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 16, 2015 in Washington, DC. Austin said that slow progress was still being made against ISIL but there have been setbacks, including the ambush of U.S.-trained fighters in Syria and the buildup of Russian forces in the country. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Pentagon: No, We Don’t Actually Have U.S. Troops Fighting in Syria
It was a tough day on Capitol Hill for the head is the U.S. Central Command
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GettyImages-93288204 North Carolina Lawmaker Posts Photo Calling Obama an ‘Islamic Son of a Bitch’
A North Carolina lawmaker posts a photo accusing Obama of being Muslim, showing tin-hat theories about the president have yet to die.
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GettyImages-481497330 5 Foreign-Policy Interviews That Will Most Make Us Miss Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart is ending a strong run of foreign-policy interviews.
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GettyImages-115175069 That Time McCain and Clapper Purportedly Argued About Torture? It Never Happened.
Sen. John McCain and DNI James Clapper never argued about terrorism; McCain had the dust-up with Michael Hayden.
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GettyImages-475423156 (1) John McCain to James Clapper: Sorry for Saying You Wanted to Torture
Sen. McCain just walked back accusations that DNI James Clapper wanted to torture suspects.
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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 23: Lt. Gen. Robert Neller takes his seat during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee July 23, 2015 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Neller, who commanded troops in Iraq from 2005 to 2007, is the Obama Administration's choice to succeed Gen. Joseph Dunford as 37th commandant of the Marine Corps. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Marine General Pushes John McCain’s Buttons on Islamic State
Arizona Senator wants more information from the Marine three-star general.
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UFA, RUSSIA - JULY 9: In this handout image supplied by Host Photo Agency / RIA Novosti, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin at a BRICS leaders limited attendance meeting during the BRICS/SCO Summits - Russia 2015 on July 09, 2015 in Ufa, Russia. (Photo by Iliya Pitalev / Host Photo Agency/Ria Novosti via Getty Images) More Pentagon Generals Line Up to Proclaim Russia’s ‘Existential’ Threat to U.S.
There are competing views over what poses the gravest threat to U.S. security.
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GettyImages-460828476 U.S. Airstrikes Whack One Thousand Islamic State Fighters a Month, Air Force General Says
A top U.S. air commander has put a body count on the number of Islamic State fighters killed in a month, even though body counts are supposed to matter.
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mccain McCain on all things military
For the last event in the Future of War conference, I interviewed Sen. John McCain, the new chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, about this and that.
