Why sic the FBI on the IDF?
The shut-and-open case of Shireen Abu Akleh
Adam Smith
Biden Must Continue the Bipartisan Nuclear Consensus
A nuclear arms race is underway, but so far, the only participants are Russia and China. The United States, for its part, is barely treading water.
Op-eds
Getting smarter about Critical Race Theory
If CRT is correct, is America worth defending?
Op-eds
Plan to Reposition U.S. Forces in Europe Needs More Work
The House Armed Service Committee (HASC) expressed concern last week about the Department of Defense (DoD) plan to reposition U.S. forces based in Europe. In its present form, the plan lacks sufficient...
Policy Briefs
We’ll always have Paris
Europeans seem to have an increasingly bizarre and perhaps self-destructive view of the world and their place in it. Last week’s most creative illustration: The Irish postal service issued...
Op-eds
How much ruin is there in a nation?
People think early European immigrants to America were seeking religious freedom. In fact, they sought escape from religious persecution. Not quite the same thing. The policy not to mole...
Op-eds
Iran’s Make-Believe Moderates
Barack Obama and his tireless secretary of state sold the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in part as a means to reinforce Iranian “reformers," "moderates," and "pragmatists."...
Op-eds
British Lessons
I imagine James Bond is relieved. After all, one can’t very well be “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” if one is no lon...
Op-eds
Why Alleged Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, If Convicted, Deserves to Die
It began as an action movie, transformed into a slasher flick, and ended as a courtroom procedural. The criminal protagonists were despicable — though not in equal measure. On July...
Op-eds
Faith-Based Negotiations
O believers, when you encounter the unbelievers marching to battle, turn not your backs to them. Whoso turns his back that day to them, unless withdrawing to fight again...
Op-eds
FDD Praises New Iran Sanctions in Defense Authorization Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – With the United States and its key European allies preparing to enter negotiations over Iran’s unlawful nuclear a...
Press Releases
FDD Commends Congress for New Iran Sanctions
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – With the United States and its key European allies soon to enter negotiations over Iran’s un...
Press Releases
US Backs Away From Sanctions on Iran’s Central Bank
The Obama administration has backpedaled from its tough talk about sanctioning the Central Bank of Iran, the country’s main financial institution for energy transactions. The...
Op-eds
In Defense of Biofuels
On the world markets, the cost of a barrel of oil is, at this writing, over $120. In the United States, a gallon of gasoline now costs, on average, roughly $3.50. Even when adjusted for inflation...
Op-eds
Symposium: 9/11: Five Years Later
On this fifth anniversary of 9/11, Frontpage Symposium has assembled a distinguished panel to discuss the significance of that terror attack, what we have done right and wrong since then, a...
Op-eds
To Bomb, or Not to Bomb
WHEN I WAS RECENTLY in Paris, a French diplomat explained to me why he--and many others in the French foreign ministry--thought the United States would, in the end, bomb Iran's nuclear-weapo...
Op-eds
Bridging the Rift in the Middle East
As usual, the word from the Middle East recently has been a mixture of good news, bad news. One piece of good news is that the Iraqi Governing Council has signed an interim constitution establish...
Op-eds
Tear Down This Regime: Let’s Negotiate North Korea’s Dictatorship Out of Existence
"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate!...