Thank you very much. It's great to have you at the White House. And I just wanted to pass on word -- Otto Warmbier has just passed away. He spent a year and a half in North Korea. A lot of bad things happened. But at least we got him home to be with his parents, where they were so happy to see him, even ...

In their book, “Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America,” editors Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson show Reagan as prodigious author who penned over 600 unique radio addresses during the 1970s. The topics ...

A Carnegie Mellon University associate professor and expert in international relations, U.S. foreign policy and political strategy has been named to President-elect Donald J. Trump's transition team for the National Security Council. Kiron Skinner is founding director of the Institute for Politics and Strategy in ...

Kiron K. Skinner, Ph.D. is the W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. At Carnegie Mellon University, she is the Director of the Institute for Politics and Strategy. Her areas of expertise are international relations, U.S. foreign policy, and political strategy. Since 2004, she has served on ...

Operation El Dorado Canyon, authorized by President Ronald Reagan and launched on April 14, 1986, entailed the bombing of military and terrorist installations in Tripoli, Libya. The attack was ordered partly in retaliation for Libya's role in the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque that claimed the life of ...

Syria becomes a greater emergency with each passing day. This week Defense Minister Daoud Rajiha and other members of President Bashar al-Assad's inner circle were murdered; opposition groups claimed responsibility. Last week Nawaf al-Fares, Syria's ambassador to Iraq, resigned from the ...

Editor's note: Kiron K. Skinner is an associate professor of international relations at Carnegie Mellon University, directs the university's International Relations and Politics Program, and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She is the co-author, along with Serhiy Kudelia, Bruce ...