Bernie Sanders

October 27, 2021 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Gaza 2021: How Biden Handled His Far-Left Hamas Caucus Problem

In Gaza Conflict 2021, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Senior Vice President for Research Jonathan Schanzer provides the first in-depth look at the May 2021 war initiated by Hamas against Israel,...

May 26, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

For Israelis, one more battle in a forever war for survival

The alternative would be another Holocaust

March 29, 2021 | David Adesnik |

Biden Revives the Truman Doctrine

His call to wage a global war for freedom echoes the dawn of the Cold War.

August 18, 2020 | Jonathan Schanzer, Mark Dubowitz

The Dangerous Illusion of Restraining U.S. Power

Isolationists among both Democrats and Republicans want to withdraw from foreign entanglements. That would make the world much less safe.

June 21, 2020 | Toby Dershowitz, Orde Kittrie

Biden blasts BDS: Why it matters

Biden's firm rejection of BDS contrasts with the views of several members of Congress led by Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), both of whom have explicitly endorsed BDS.

May 29, 2020 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ray Takeyh

Regime change in Iran shouldn’t be a taboo

Regime change in Iran is one of the biggest taboos in U.S. foreign policy. Bring it up and you will be scorned as a warmonger, a fomenter of chaos. Yet we have encouraged and welcomed the collapse of dictatorships...

April 13, 2020 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Islamic Revolution vs. Donald Trump

Iran and Ayatollah Khamenei are more influential today than at any time since 1979.

April 9, 2020 | John Hannah |

How Republicans View a Biden-Trump Race

Our contributors weigh in on Bernie Sanders’s departure from the U.S. presidential race—and what it means for an election campaign overshadowed by the coronavirus.

March 16, 2020 | John Hannah |

Big Takeaways from the Biden-Sanders Debate

Our experts weigh in on the first head-to-head debate between the two main remaining Democratic contenders.

March 16, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Bernie Sanders Gets China’s Economy Exactly Wrong

The economic growth came from the kind of liberal reforms that he hates.

February 26, 2020 | John Hannah |

Democrats Fail the Commander-in-Chief Test

Election 2020 On Tuesday, Democrats held yet another debate. And refreshingly, for once, foreign policy was actually on the agenda. Bernie Sanders came under fire for praising authoritarian leaders, Michael...

February 20, 2020 | John Hannah |

The Debate That Democrats Didn’t Have in Las Vegas

Republican foreign-policy experts weigh in on the most eventful debate of the 2020 primary.

February 12, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

The return of the Monroe Doctrine

Sanders aside, Trump finds bipartisan support for a pro-U.S. Venezuelan leader

December 18, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

Progress on ‘the Jewish question’

Anti-Semites suffer defeats in the U.K. and the U.S.

December 11, 2019 | John Hannah |

Democratic Frontrunners Are Wrong About Aid for Israel

Putting America’s annual $3.8 billion of military assistance to Israel on the chopping block makes for good politics. But it makes no sense for U.S. national security.

November 12, 2019 | Jacob Nagel |

The U.S.-Israel Military Partnership Should Remain Outside Presidential Politics

The risks are rising that U.S. military assistance to Israel will become an important issue in the Democratic presidential primaries. On October 19, Senator Elizabeth Warren suggested that aid should be...

November 6, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

Selective anti-imperialism

The world’s most despotic empires do not concern Ilhan Omar and her fans.

October 8, 2019 | Mark Dubowitz, Tzvi Kahn

Angry At Trump’s Syria-Withdrawal? He Learned His Foreign Policy From Obama

Donald Trump’s decision this week to abandon the Kurds in Syria to Turkey’s authoritarian leader Recep Erdogan is a warning to America’s friends facing dangerous enemies. Trump could abandon you in...

March 22, 2018 | Varsha Koduvayur

Senate Vote Reflects Growing Congressional Concern over Yemen

On Tuesday, the Senate voted 55-44 to block a joint resolution to end U.S. military support to Saudi forces...

March 20, 2018 | Alexandra N. Gutowski, Varsha Koduvayur

Saudi’s Young Leader Arrives to a Washington Divided Over Yemen

Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince and architect of its war in Yemen, will ...