Andrew C. McCarthy

January 15, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

Coming to America

It’s not just mass illegal immigration that poses a threat

October 5, 2016 | Clifford D. May

Sometimes, strategic counterterrorism is counterintuitive

For almost eight years, I’ve waited for Congress to stand up to President Obama, to demonstrate that the legislative branch is still — as the Founders envisioned — coe...

August 10, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

What does America owe Iran?

An unmarked cargo plane filled with $400 million in cash lands in Tehran. Four American hostages held by Iran’s rulers are set free. These revelations have sparked two controversi...

April 22, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Times That Try Congressmen’s Souls

Will members defend America’s national security, sovereignty and Constitution?

May 27, 2014 | Clifford D. May

A Road Map To Get To The Bottom Of Benghazi

CNN President Jeff Zucker says his network may not bother to report on the House...

January 21, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Obama Is Eagerly Mainstreaming the Iranian Regime

A State Department spokesman announced Monday...

July 11, 2013 | Clifford D. May

Murder on the Democracy Express

Who killed Egyptian democracy? Elite foreign-policy analysts have been providing strikingly divergent answers. Egypt’s military is, of course, the prime s...

March 28, 2013 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

Crossing Jordan

Some Arab leaders have taken risks for peace – and paid with their lives.

February 14, 2013 | Clifford D. May

The ‘Targeted-Killing’ Memos

Why shouldn’t the public get to read them?

June 16, 2012 | |

Stay Out of Syria

A response to Clifford D. May.

June 11, 2012 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please!

Leaks and Lies

I once had a long discussion about leaks with Richard Helms, a thoughtful gentleman who steadfastly refused to reveal state secrets even when threatened with imprisonment.  Helms was directo...

June 6, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

The Battle of Syria

Assad’s survival would be a victory for Iran – and a defeat for the U.S.

June 4, 2012 | |

Romney’s Syria Problem

His support for “opposition groups” is misplaced.

May 21, 2012 |

From Democracy to Sharia

The ‘Arab Spring’ shows that democratic process is useless without democratic culture.

May 14, 2012 |

Western Sharia

Muslim supremacists partner with the Lawyer Left.

May 7, 2012 |

Compulsory Blindness

A few years back, I wrote a book called “Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad.&rdquo...

May 2, 2012 | Clifford D. May

The Foggiest War

We don’t know our enemy. What’s worse: We don’t want to.

April 9, 2012 |

Obama Funds the Egyptian Government

In October 2010, on the eve of the Islamic revolution that the media fancies as “the Arab Spring,” the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood called for jih...

March 26, 2012 |

Don’t Stay the Course

He couldn’t name a single one. In this tense campaign season, al-Qaeda is very much in the front of the Obama administration’s mind. In fact, admini...

March 12, 2012 | Andrew McCarthy National Review Online |

Let Syria Be

‘We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.” That’s the concluding rally cry of the U.S. Department of Defense’s newly issue...