Bill Finan

The Oval Office in the White House while John F. Kennedy was President 1963 © 2012 Mark Shaw

Organizing the presidency, from Roosevelt to Biden

Stephen Hess, James P. Pfiffner, and Bill Finan

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Lithuanian Military Academy students hold NATO membership states flags during the celebration of the 15th anniversary of Lithuania's membership in NATO in Vilnius, Lithuania March 30, 2019. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

Trump, Biden, and the future of the liberal world order

Bill Finan and Wolfgang Ischinger

Friday, November 27, 2020

Oct 4, 2020; Paradise, Nevada, USA; A general overall aerial view of Allegiant Stadium and Las Vegas strip during the NFL game between the Buffalo Bills and the Las Vegas Raiders. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

The 2020 election in blue metros and red states

David F. Damore, Bill Finan, and Robert E. Lang

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets audience members at a campaign rally in Warwick, Rhode Island April 25, 2016. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Why Democratic communities flipped for Trump (and might do so again)

Bill Finan, Stephanie Muravchik, and Jon A. Shields

Friday, August 28, 2020

People attend a reenactment of the 1989 protest march to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Prague, Czech Republic, November 17, 2019. REUTERS/David W Cerny

How the US embassy in Prague aided Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution

Norman Eisen and Bill Finan

Friday, April 24, 2020

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stands under pictures of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) and Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini while speaking during a ceremony to mark Khomeini's death anniversary at his tomb at Tehran's Behesht-Zahra cemetery June 3, 2011. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl/File Photo

The 1979 Iranian Revolution’s enduring impact on the world

Suzanne Maloney and Bill Finan

Friday, March 27, 2020

Students wear masks of China's President Xi Jinping as other waves national flags of India and China, ahead of the informal summit with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at a school in Chennai, India, October 10, 2019. REUTERS/P. Ravikumar TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

How China shapes U.S.-India relations

Tanvi Madan and Bill Finan

Friday, February 21, 2020

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Adam Hickey, Bill Priestap, assistant director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz are sworn in during a Judiciary Committee hearing into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 26, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein - RC14DA9ED4D0

Who are the Inspectors General and what do they do?

Bill Finan, Kathryn Newcomer, and Charles A. Johnson

Friday, December 6, 2019

U.S. Marine sits in a foxhole and points a machine gun towards Beirut, Lebanon, in the distance

Beirut 1958: America’s first Middle East intervention

Bruce Riedel and Bill Finan

Friday, November 1, 2019

People come and go from the Registrar of Voters office on the final day of voter registration in the upcoming congressional elections in San Diego, California, U.S. October 22, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake - RC1956981AF0

What really drives voters to the polls?

Bill Finan and Donald P. Green

Friday, July 26, 2019