Luke Johnson has followed world events since age 14. A senior majoring in Government at Claremont McKenna College and having studied abroad, his favorite topics include American foreign policy, the Middle East and Russia.
Egypt and Tunisia made ending authoritarian regimes by peaceful protest look easy--two governments that had a seemingly limitless grip on power abdicated within a matter of days. Sadly, these uprisings are very much the exception to the rule with...
Both the New York Times and Politico front pages lead with stories about how isolated Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) is over his support for the ratification of the START Treaty.
"Charting His Own Course Against Prevailing Winds,"...
Both former Washington Post religion writer Sally Quinn and Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi have almost nothing in common except for both being made in Washington. Quinn had never written anything when she was interviewed for a job at the...
IT WASN'T A victory speech. Those were the first words that President Obama spoke tonight at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Tex., "It’s not going to be a victory lap. It’s not going...
I don't want Iran to become a nuclear power. I also don't think an air strike by Israel or the United States on its nuclear facilities would be successful. I think the consequences from the second...
Wikileaks leaked over 90,000 records to the New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel on the War in Afghanistan with detail rarely seen in news reports. A cursory look at the doucments reveals that the sentiments are things...
The FBI announced yesterday that it broke up a Russian spy network of 10 spies allegedly trying to "Americanize" themselves for long-term operations to gain information about U.S. policymaking. If you were moaning the end...
President Obama campaigned on closing the Guantánamo Bay prison and signed an executive order two days after taking office ordering the prison to be closed within a year. The prison remains open 1 1/2 years after that...
The pope of counterinsurgency, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, was defrocked but God replaced him. That would be General David Petraeus.In doing so, President Obama pulled a typically...
A New York Times story Monday detailing the newly-discovered $1 trillion wealth of "untapped mineral deposits" in Afghanistan "according to senior American government officials" seemed almost too good to be true in what was...