Turkey’s Quiet Relationship with ISIS
On June 29, 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State in al-Sham (ISIS), was recorded on video speaking at the al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul, Iraq. (“Al-Sham” is the traditional Arabic...
Ben Rhodes
Fascism for dummies
Those using the word should at least know what it means
Op-eds
The Post-Post-JCPOA World
Is a nuclear Iran something Republicans must now simply accept?
Op-eds
How to Use Antisemitism Against Antisemites
Jewish power in America? When Sapir approached me to contribute an essay to this issue, my first instinct was to decline. I was born in South Africa and raised and educated in Canada. I became a U.S. citizen...
Op-eds
The Realignment
On Iran, Biden is finishing what Obama started. And his top advisers are all on board.
Op-eds
Reading foreign policy tea leaves
Actually, we can’t predict what presidential advisors will advise
Op-eds
The Biden Agenda: Eyes on Iran
Look for plans to return the U.S. to the JCPOA while concerns about regional aggression, terrorism, and more are shunted to the side.
Op-eds
McMaster and commander in chief
The former national security advisor on the urgent need for “strategic competence”
Op-eds
Joe Biden Will Be America’s Most Pro-Kurdish President
The real test of Biden’s pro-Kurdish sentiments will be whether the need to maintain pragmatic cooperation with Ankara and Baghdad will ultimately force him to temper his commitment to the Kurds that the mountains are not their only friends.
Op-eds
The JCPOA Has Not Improved Iran’s Human Rights Record
The Obama administration routinely argued that the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran could spur Tehran to moderate, thereby reducing its systematic human rights abuses. But this forecast has proven unfounded:...
Policy Briefs
Don’t listen to the echo chamber
Giving money to Iran’s rulers won’t help the Iranians they oppress
Op-eds
What we know about Iran five years after Netanyahu’s speech to Congress
We have five years of experience to compare the competing assessments of 2015. Now we know that Netanyahu’s gloomy forecast has proven to be the more prescient.
Op-eds
Mullah report
When President Trump withdrew the United States from his predecessor's nuclear deal with Iran last May, he set in motion what he wanted to avoi...
Op-eds
Trump’s Foreign Policy Is a Work in Progress
His successes and failures defy simplistic, partisan assessment.
Op-eds
The Iran Deal Is Strategically and Morally Absurd
It was surely Barack Obama’s profound aversion to the use of American military power that so enfeebled his nuclear diplomacy and made his atomic accord with Iran the worst arms-control agre...
Op-eds
Deceptive Deja Vu
In France, all right-thinking people know instinctively what the pensée unique is—the socially acceptable view on any subject that ensures a Parisian won’t get axed from the be...
Op-eds
Qatar and Terror Finance
FDD Press
Monographs
How the Syria Echo Chamber Works
Over the past five-and-a-half years, the Obama White House has used the Syria echo chamber it created in the American press and on social media to defend and advance the...
Op-eds
Nobody Knows Anything About Fascism
As I wrote in this space a few weeks ago, Donald Trump is no fascist, but there...
Op-eds
For Middle East Peace, Look to Israel’s Arab Partners
Speculation is rife that President Barack Obama will make one final stab at putting his mark on the Middle East peace process before he leaves office. One theory has...