John Aloysius Farrell

GlobalPost

John Aloysius Farrell is foreign policy correspondent for GlobalPost. Farrell is an award-winning reporter who has served as a Washington editor, senior national political correspondent and White House reporter for the Boston Globe, and as Washington bureau chief and columnist for the Denver Post. He is a contributing editor to US News & World Report, and the author of "Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century," and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow.

For Which It Stands: Washington

March 9, 2017Politics

Hillary Clinton appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today.

Obama and the world

March 9, 2017Politics

While the party begins

March 9, 2017Politics

The day the world changed

March 9, 2017Politics

Gore outlines climate change challenges

March 9, 2017Politics

Campaign promises: nuclear arms control

March 9, 2017Politics

Obama faces challenges abroad and within his own administration in living up to his promise to abolish nuclear weapons.

Studying the options

March 9, 2017Politics

A unique Senate roundtable examines how best to proceed in Afghanistan

Washington’s grim resolve

March 9, 2017Politics

Announcement of US troop surge in Afghanistan wins some bipartisan support, but doesn’t inspire patriotic fervor

A domestic agenda

March 9, 2017Commentary

Analysis: In speech to Congress, Obama puts threats at home front and center.

Obama and the “reset” button

March 9, 2017Politics

Fifty days into his presidency, Obama’s foreign policy begins to take shape.