Skip to content

Listen Now

Threat Status podcast: What if China beats the U.S. in a war?

TRENDING:
Donald Trump
Advertisement

Articles by Stephen Dinan

Secretary Jeh Johnson of the Department of Homeland Security. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Homeland Security ranks as worst federal agency for employees

Homeland Security ranked by far as the worst large federal agency to work for in 2015, according to the annual survey of federal employees released Monday that shows the department continuing a precipitous slide under President Obama.

September 28, 2015
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif. speaks about foreign policy during the John Hay Initiative, Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, at a hotel in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Kevin McCarthy announces bid for House Speaker

Rep. Kevin McCarthy announced his bid to be the next House speaker in a letter to colleagues Monday that insisted the GOP must work to heal its internal divisions in order to win on the big fights facing Congress.

September 28, 2015
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, California Republican, answers a question during a House GOP leadership news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 24, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Kevin McCarthy calls for no-fly zone over Syria

The man poised to be the next House speaker said Monday that the U.S. needs to assume a more aggressive posture around the world, saying the key to foreign policy is making it "painful" for countries to misbehave.

September 28, 2015
House Speaker John A. Boehner's retirement announcement caught all of his colleagues off guard. (Associated Press)

House conservatives want time to replace John Boehner

Conservatives are pushing to slow down the race to succeed retiring Speaker John A. Boehner, hoping to force a broader shake-up in House Republican leadership as the party tries to move forward.

September 27, 2015
Pope Francis addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015, making history as the first pontiff to do so. Listening behind the pope are Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Pope Francis proposes ‘golden rule’ of politics, demands end to death penalty

Pope Francis called on Americans to fully embrace the Golden Rule in politics as the head of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics delivered a sermon on Capitol Hill on Thursday, challenging Congress and voters alike to serve the needy and to see the world in nuance rather than the "simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil."

September 24, 2015
Republican presidential candidate, businesswoman Carly Fiorina makes a point during the CNN Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) ** FILE **

Carly Fiorina tops Hillary Clinton in head-to-head matchup: poll

Carly Fiorina tops Hillary Rodham Clinton in a head-to-head general election matchup, according to the latest Quinnipiac University Poll released Thursday morning that also found the former Hewlett-Packard CEO easily outperformed GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump in last week's debate.

September 24, 2015
First lady Michelle Obama, accompanied by President Obama, greets Pope Francis upon his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base on Tuesday. (AP Photo)

Pope Francis brings brief political truce to Washington

Raucous cheers erupted Tuesday as Pope Francis set foot in the U.S. for the first time, kicking off a six-day, three-city American tour that promises to dominate the headlines and present politicians with the chance to bask in the "glow" of association with the popular pontiff.

September 22, 2015
FILE - This June 18, 2014, file photo, detainees sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection, processing facility in Brownsville,Texas. Immigration courts backlogged by years of staffing shortages and tougher enforcement face an even more daunting challenge since tens of thousands of Central Americans began arriving on the U.S. border fleeing violence back home. For years, children from Central America traveling alone and immigrants who prove they have a credible fear of returning home have been entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, Pool, File)

Mexican, Central American immigrants slower to assimilate in U.S.

Immigrants overall do rather well at assimilating into the U.S., but there are major differences — particularly for poor Mexican and Central American immigrants, whose families lag behind the kind of integration the U.S. has prided itself on for decades, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine said in a report Monday.

September 21, 2015
Hillary Rodham Clinton turned over about 30,000 email messages in December, while her aides turned over more than 100,000 pages between them, with the final set only being returned, by Huma Abedin, earlier this month, the State Department said in court filings. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton emails: FBI refuses to cooperate in server probe

The FBI refused to cooperate Monday with a court-ordered inquiry into former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's email server, telling the State Department that they won't even confirm they are investigating the matter themselves, much less willing to tell the rest of the government what's going on.

September 21, 2015
Huma Abedin, who has been at Hillary Rodham Clinton's side as her personal assistant or "body woman" since the 2008 presidential race, faced criticism for standing by her husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner, after sexting scandals that damaged his political career. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Hillary Clinton aides relinquish more than 100,000 pages of emails

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's top aides have belatedly turned over more than 100,000 pages of emails they had kept on personal email accounts, or accounts tied to Mrs. Clinton's server, the government told a federal judge late Friday.

September 19, 2015