Mitch McConnell has achieved more in six months than Democrats managed in years. Recently a reporter asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell what he thought about the fact that so many of his fellow Senate Republicans are running for president. His response: If they want a real challenge, they should try running ...

The fight against the Islamic State, Russia's annexation of Crimea and other arguably less-pressing issues — including the change in U.S. policy toward the Cuban regime — have thwarted President Obama's much-vaunted second-term plan for a "pivot" to Asia. That move should begin again quickly, but with three provisos.First, the president ...

Seventy years ago today, the map of the world, the United States’ global role and the lives of generations of Americans changed forever.
D-Day, June 6, 1944. The Allied forces’ assault on continental Europe — the largest amphibious offensive in history — doomed Nazi Germany to defeat, but for many at that moment, ...