What does progressive foreign policy actually accomplish on the ground?

How Obama’s ‘progressive’ foreign policy vision—to backpedal away from the Middle East, fast, while kicking our former allies in the region to the curb—became consensus in D.C.

Some of the most brutal and powerful officials in Damascus apparently saw Nir Rosen as a useful instrument. The question is why—and for what?

Five years after the Islamic State’s massacre of Yazidis in Sinjar, Iraq, it seems harder than ever to get Western leaders to live up to protecting minority ethnic or religious groups from extinction in the Middle East

News of the News: Like in the Middle East, U.S. political operatives and intelligence officials are increasingly using the cloak of journalism as a tool for their aims

Worked on the Arab-Israeli peace process under President Clinton

Plus king of the condoms, Van Halen on MacDougal Street, and more

Former Congressman Robert Wexler wants to make Mideast peace, but he doesn’t want to be ambassador to Israel

Jewish gangleader, Mideast roundtable, and more

Part 1 of 2: Elliott Abrams, Robert Malley, Dore Gold, and Andrew Exum consider the president’s policies in the region.

Why do Arab governments—and the U.S.—insist the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at the heart of all the Mideast’s problems?

Robert Malley, a former Clinton official, says Hamas must be engaged

Israel rejects unilateral move; analysts argue peace process is dead