Of all the senior foreign-policy officials during the tumultuous George W. Bush presidency, Condoleezza Rice was the least complicated. The others — Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld — had at one time or another imagined themselves as a potential president, been captains of industry or the military and were experienced in the dark arts of bureaucratic Washington. Read full article > >

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‘No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington’ by Condoleezza Rice

As the tumultuous first two years of Barack Obama’s presidency draw to a close, the president and his advisers have begun to puzzle over a difficult question: Now what?

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Obama may be on his own if he wants big changes