DOJ and UK vs. Nunes, Muqtada al-Sadr's moment, North Korea's summit bluff, Devin Nunes trust issues, Putin's Ukraine bridge

Why the Department of Justice can’t give Devin Nunes what he wants without burning the British government. I explain the stakes and sources issue here.

Muqtada al-Sadr’s pick for Iraqi Prime Minister will have major consequences for Iraq and the U.S.

North Korea is bluffing about cancelling the Singapore summit. Here’s how we know and why Trump should respond with total disinterest.

Devin Nunes has lost credibility. The Justice Department should brief Speaker Paul Ryan instead. Ryan has the intelligence community's trust.

Putin just inaugurated a bridge from Ukraine to Russia. Here’s why Ukraine should drop some bombs on that bridge.

Trump's ZTE kool-aid, Hamas border tactics

On ZTE, Trump drinks Xi's communist party Kool-Aid

How Hamas' tactics force Israel's hand at the Gaza-Israel border

Duncan Hunter is wrong about military spending and Congress knowing better

The McLaughlin Group

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Iran deal withdrawal, North Korean nuclear summit, border security Progressive politics

Netanyahu-Putin, Jerusalem embassy, Singapore summit, Media CIA, Hamas antics

Benjamin Netanyahu just met with Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Here’s what each leader wants from the other and why the two men respect each other

Iran or terrorists may target the U.S. embassy opening in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Here’s why the event and the city have so much significance to these U.S. enemies

Singapore is a great choice of location for the Trump-Kim summit. The city state has the infrastructure and relationship to support U.S. interests during the sit down

Covering the CIA and Gina Haspel, the media ignores much of the news that’s fit to print. We have to face up to the fact that media objectivity is a real issue here

Why Hamas wants thousands of Palestinians to die next week. The terrorist group is encouraging Palestinians to storm the Israeli border for three reasons

Iran diplomacy, Northern gifts, KSM games

Trump's Iran deal withdrawal is calibrated to diplomatic intents, not war

Beware the North Koreans, even when they bear hostage gifts

Attacking Gina Haspel, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is playing out the al Qaeda textbook

UK local elections, Northern Ireland: the ballot and bullet, Star Trek supremacy

UK local elections show Theresa May won the strategic victory

Two stories sum up the current state of Northern Ireland politics

Why Star Trek is better than Star Wars in reasoning of philosophy, strategic realism and story development

Special Report

2m40s - On Giuliani comments re: special counsel investigation

At start - On Haspel hearing

Haspel

Exclusive: Why Gina Haspel is popular with allies and unpopular with adversaries

Iraqi shoe politics, Korean deployments

The guy who threw his shoes at George W. Bush is running for the Iraqi parliament for a party that used to fight U.S. forces. It speaks to Iraq’s vibrant democracy.

If a North Korea deal is reached, the U.S. should withdraw 50 percent of its forces from South Korea within four years. Here’s why.

Putin vs. Javelins, Space branch? Mueller's dangle, good oligarch, China's pig problem

How will Putin respond to Ukraine’s Javelin arrival? One of these three ways?

Better alternative to a military space branch: establish a combatant command to get the best results

Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants President Trump to bite on his dangle of questions. The president would be very ill-advised to do so.

Salute Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Putin critic who won’t quit. The good oligarch is fighting for truth and justice against grave threats.

Peppa Pig and the perilous predicament of the Chinese polity. Beijing has a problem with a fake British cartoon pig. Here’s why!