This Christmas season, do yourself a favor by clicking on Providence magazine, a journal devoted to Christian realism, to read the powerful reflections and insights about Christmas of Walter Russell ...

War is the teacher of kings. As President Trump is discovering, it is also a tough grader. So far, air superiority, even ...

Walter Russell Mead says Trump’s instincts are to avoid war, but he’s no isolationist. He struck back hard at a real threat.

Elliot Kaufman and Walter Russell Mead on how the war with Iran began; Kate Odell with Bradley Bowman on U.S. missile stocks and China–Iran–Russia–North Korea ties; and Elliot Kaufman with Behnam Ben ...

Ayatollah Khomenei aggressively contradicted traditional Shiite Islamic thought.

President Bush entered the Oval Office in January last year with a briefcase full of campaign IOUs centering on domestic issues and little interest in international affairs. The attacks of September ...

On What Really Matters, Walter Russell Mead discusses Anthropic’s standoff with the Pentagon, whether munitions being used in Iran are really drawing down United States stockpiles in other theaters, ...

Wall Street Journal columnist Walter Russell Mead discusses how Iran’s current regime could ultimately come to an end and what that might look like on 'Kudlow'. A key nuclear weapons treaty is ending.

Walter Russell Mead, a leading American historian, says that President Bush’s record in foreign policy has improved a bit in the second term, recovering traditional ground in Europe, and now showing ...

While examining President Obama's "split personality" in Foreign Policy magazine, Walter Russell Mead falls back on a familiar presidential comparison: Jimmy Carter. He worries that Obama's impulse to ...