So, Russia and Ukraine are still as far apart as ever, with the two warring countries unable to make a significant breakthrough in direct talks in Istanbul.

When President Trump talks about his foreign policy, he often frames it as a business deal. He says much less about conventional diplomacy, like ending the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

Russia has proposed another attempt at peace negotiations with Ukraine on Monday in Istanbul, but both sides remain firmly entrenched in positions likely to prolong the war.

World leaders are pursuing their own versions of national interest on different historical and actual timelines than the transactional aspirations of American presidents.

Q: Two storylines from Trump’s tariffs this week: First, the president’s new nickname: TACO (Trump always chickens out), coined by a financial reporter who observed every time the stock market tanks, Trump eases up on tariffs. Last week, Trump relaxed 50% tariffs on European goods. Is this sea-saw approach Art of the Deal stuff, or something else?

The conflict underscores need for coordinated federal and private efforts to close gaps in homeland drone protection

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump had a call last week, during which Putin signaled that Russia would be willing to work with Ukraine on peace talks.

President Donald Trump's ignorance of history keeps him from acknowledging the high cost that was paid in the last century because "America First" prejudices kept our nation from defending Western civilization in Europe until it was almost too late.

The crucial test of President Donald Trump’s Ukraine policy was always going to come when he realized that something he thought was easy — brokering a peace agreement — turned out to be very hard. He would then face a choice between doing the difficult,

The president is right about wanting to end the war in Ukraine but wrong about threatening to walk away from cease-fire talks.

Two regions that have figured prominently in Donald Trump’s mineral ambitions are Ukraine and Greenland. These two areas, one a country at war and the other a semi-autonomous possession of Denmark, couldn’t be more different.