For decades, the foreign policy elite in both parties insisted that America’s greatness has more to do with Damascus than ...

Soon after the Revolution ended, George Washington calculated that the Army had four jobs in peacetime. By Thomas E. Ricks , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. fp-placeholder-social ...

As the United States prepares to celebrate its birth on July 4th -- the day in 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress -- it is awash in foreign ...

U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 10. U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 2. George Washington, “Farewell Address,” September 19, 1796.

John Avlon, Washington’s Farewell: The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017), 368 pp., $27.00. ON FEBRUARY 27, Sen. Ben Sasse spent about forty ...

September 20, 2021 | Clip Of George Washington's Farewell Address. ... This clip features a discussion about foreign policy in Washington's Farewell Address. 4 minutes. Keywords. 100 Years War; ...

From George Washington's warning against "foreign entanglements" to Donald Trump's "America First," the pledge to keep the focus close to home has been almost as constant as the oath of office itself.

Today marks the 223rd anniversary of George Washington’s Farewell Address. It is sometimes mistakenly referred to a speech, but it was actually a six-thousand-word letter to the American people.