Over the years, Halle’s Spring in Washington has won a devoted following of nature enthusiasts for its depictions of the drama of spring’s arrival. But Halle’s devotion to the ecological view earned him another...

There was a reason why Nancy Pelosi was beaming from the podium in the House of Representatives on the 99th day of Joe Biden’s presidency: Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the...

Senior Fellow Charles Edel's new chapter "Extending the Sphere: A Federalist Grand Strategy," in Rethinking American Grand Strategy looks at how The Federalist Papers served as the first articulation of American grand strategy...

President Biden has put the idea of deeper democratic cooperation at the centre of his statements on foreign policy. But what exactly this will entail, conceptually and operationally, and how it might overcome...

At the Aspen Security Conference in the American summer of 2019, Christopher Wray, director of the FBI, told a story of life in Donald Trump's dysfunctional, sometimes dystopian Washington.

Leaving a meeting in...

As Joe Biden assumed the presidency, Scribe reissued his 2008 campaign biography, Promises to Keep. It’s a very smart publishing decision because it brings to us the true bedrock of Biden in...

USSC non-resident senior fellow Charles Edel reviews Misha Auslin's new book, "Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific," for Orbis.

This is a presidential memoir that was perfectly timed, even though it was reportedly a year late.

If A Promised Land had landed in 2019, it would have had an undue influence on...

This was always going to be one of the more eagerly awaited presidential memoirs in living memory. Not only because of Barack Obama’s astonishing success in his rise to the White House in...

Joe Biden has run this way all his life, starting in 1972, age 29, when he took on, and took down, a Senate veteran of 25 years’ service to the good people of...

Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage, is based on 18 taped interviews with US President Donald Trump, totalling nine hours and 41 minutes. In one of them, the author talks in terms of writing...

Two years ago, Bob Woodward captured President Donald Trump revelling in a paroxysm of fear. ‘‘Real power is – I don’t even want to use the word – fear,’’ and that became the...

Simon & Schuster, publisher of the memoir of Mary Trump, niece of President Donald Trump, and her account of family history and associated crimes, abuses, losses and pain, is thrilled with the book's...

Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York moved to the lectern. It was the Cow Palace in San Francisco in the summer of 1964 and the event was the Republican National Convention. Rockefeller...

Curtis Sittenfeld has a knack of putting her readers in uncomfortable places in her fiction. In her short story “Gender Studies” she puts you in the middle of a hotel tryst between a...

There is a time-honoured American expression that accurately describes John Bolton’s reflections on his 2018-19 tenure as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser: “It’s difficult to soar like an eagle when you have...

The key to understanding John Bolton is through his career and what he wanted to achieve with it. Bolton has served every Republican president since Ronald Reagan as Assistant Attorney General, then Assistant...

The Innocence Project in the US and elsewhere has become ­famous for addressing miscarriages of justice. Its legal teams challenge wrongful convictions that often are based on inadequate defence, false confessions or witness...

This article argues for a more nuanced approach to distilling the Dayton legacy, particularly when it is employed as a historical analogy. It highlights the usefulness of the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA) as...

Stephen Loosley reviews Michael Connelly's new crime thriller, The Night Fire