“The bulk of the weight carried now,” Peter Singer, defense expert at New America Foundation, says, “is a combination of protective vest, flak vest...

“You have to lean toward not responding,” said Princeton University political historian Julian Zelizer. “It’s hard for the president to get deep in...

Daniel Rothenberg, co-director of the Future of War Project at Arizona State University, said he believes there is a substantial divide in public o...

Despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent by both Democrats and Republicans to win control of Congress and gubernatorial seats, many of the big...

It’s “heartening” that the NSA has some privacy protections in place, but “significant concerns” remain, said Robyn Greene, policy counsel at think...

The US Navy made news this week by announcing a new type of autonomous robotic boat for protecting its fleet, but China is showing that it can play...

Clearly, Hong Kong’s protestors have an uphill slog. The possibility of Beijing making significant concessions are almost nil. But it doesn’t make ...

If Warren handles the Federal Reserve oversight hearings about the tapes in the right way, they could attract huge interest and really define who s...

As the first African American president, the same thing that makes President Obama so singular in history also may make him vulnerable in a way no ...

What if President Obama was subject to the same degree of direct scrutiny from Congress that his British counterpart Prime Minister David Cameron i...

The trade-off for securing the president usually means also secluding the president. Julian Zelizer, Marc Ambinder, Christina Greer and Bob Franken...

On Monday Afghans formed a "national unity government" with the once-bitter rivals Dr. Ashraf Ghani, taking the role of president and Dr. Adullah A...

Scholar and strategist Peter Singer: “That somehow all your cyber fears can be solved by handing over the problem to a ‘man on cyber horseback’ who...

FireChat doesn't need the Internet but it is not risk-free.

While China has made many recent advances in defense space technology, it still lags behind the U.S. when it comes to imaging satellites. But recen...

If this was the greatest army in history, why was it unable to prevail in Afghanistan and Iraq?

New pictures have emerged of additional production models of the J-10B “Vigorous Dragon” fighter jets, one of the latest planes to equip China’s gr...

In the aftermath of Watergate, Carter understood that the way government worked was as important as the specific policies that the government produ...

The cost of NSA surveillance.

If we don't make policy changes soon, according to a new report, America runs the risk of losing its fastest-growing resource: students who speak t...

This means that U.S. policy — especially education — is dominated by trust in procedures rather than trust in basic human judgment. That is, instea...

We also consulted with Conor P. Williams, Ph.D., of the New America Foundation, who helped us understand LEAPS in the context of a national movement.