Bill Clinton

September 9, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero |

Washington is ready to fall into Kim Jong Un’s trap, again

How many times will the United States pay North Korea to shut down the same nuclear reactor? The answer so far is three, although the Biden White House seems increasingly ready to make it four. North Korea...

August 15, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal, Ben Evansky

Controversial German politician to head UN agency accused of helping Iran with tech linked to nuclear program

Gerd Müller prepares to outline his plans for UNIDO during the final week of August

June 14, 2021 | Shany Mor |

Israel’s New Government Is a Rebuke of Left-Wing Nonsense

It’s impossible to say whether Israel’s new government will fail or succeed, whether it will long endure or fall apart, and whether its first steps this week will come to be seen as a dramatic...

May 6, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

How China Responded to President Biden’s Address to Congress

Predictably.

April 27, 2021 | Richard Goldberg, Matthew Zweig, Behnam Ben Taleblu, Saeed Ghasseminejad

Biden, Congress Should Defend Missile Sanctions Imposed on Iran

April 14, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Biden’s bad deals

His diplomats, like Obama’s, give without getting

February 16, 2021 | Jonathan Schanzer |

It’s Time for Biden to Call Netanyahu

He might want to avoid controversy right now, but he can't avoid our most valuable ally in the Middle East.

January 27, 2021 | Dennis Ross, Juan C. Zarate

Are there pieces of Trump’s foreign policy worth keeping?

The shock of the Jan. 6 mob assault on the Congress and the stain on the image of American democracy will not wear off anytime soon. This moment has amplified the impulse to reject the vestiges of Trump...

January 25, 2021 | Richard Goldberg, Saeed Ghasseminejad, Behnam Ben Taleblu, Matthew Zweig, Mark Dubowitz

Biden, Congress Should Defend Terrorism Sanctions Imposed on Iran

December 15, 2020 | Bradley Bowman, Clifford D. May

“Endless Wars” and the Danger of Ignoring History

November 20, 2020 | Gregory D. Koblentz, Andrea Stricker

Trump Should Act Against Russia’s Use of Chemical Weapons

Existing sanctions aren’t deterring Moscow. Fortunately, there’s bipartisan agreement on the need for new ones.

October 7, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

McMaster and commander in chief

The former national security advisor on the urgent need for “strategic competence”

September 17, 2020 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

If Biden, Then What, on Iran?

Hope springs eternal in the human breast,” wrote Alexander Pope in An Essay on Man. Such sentiment describes perfectly the lingering adherents of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement known as the JCPOA....

August 26, 2020 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer |

In the Era of U.S. Energy Abundance: The Role of the Caspian Region in U.S. Policy

For most of the last fifty years, international energy policy has been a major focus of U.S. foreign and national security policy.1 Washington has viewed ensuring the energy security of its allies—especially...

June 24, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Iran’s rulers (still) seek nuclear weapons

Yet more evidence that those who despise us can’t be bought off

June 3, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

What the alien invasion has wrought

Attacked by a common enemy, earthlings have not united

April 22, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Who made the world sick?

China’s Communist rulers did, with assistance from, you know, WHO

April 14, 2020 | Eric S. Edelman, Ray Takeyh

The Next Iranian Revolution

Why Washington Should Seek Regime Change in Tehran

February 2, 2020 | Tony Badran |

Rock, Paper, Scissors in the Middle East

Trump’s is the latest play in a decadeslong game of trying to counter previous ‘peace process’ moves by each new American administration

October 21, 2019 | Mikhael Smits  |

The companies we keep

“I have tried to help the people of the world to make it a little better,” wrote James Naismith, basketball’s inventor, in 1918, reflecting on a life of Christian education and athletics. He would...