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September 14, 2024 | David May, Melissa Sacks

The Fundraising Shortcut Ripe for Abuse

Did tax-exempt money help activists release maggots and mealworms on the Israeli prime minister’s delegation to Washington, DC, in late July? The perpetrators reportedly hailed from the Palestinian...

March 4, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: March 4, 2024

Today’s Issue: Missile Fired From Lebanon Toward Israel Kills One, Wounds Nine | In Overnight West Bank Raids, IDF Destroys Terrorist’s Home, Makes Arrests, Discovers Explosives Charges | In Two-Week...

October 27, 2023 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

What Happens to Gaza If Hamas Is Actually Defeated?

There could be a brighter future for the Palestinian enclave, but only if Arab and Western governments commit to helping to rebuild its cities and political leadership.

December 1, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

What is missing from America’s China policy?

Skin in the game

April 9, 2022 | James Brooke |

Putin’s war perverts a personal geography

Bucha? That was the leafy Kyiv suburb where we spent a Saturday afternoon, eating ice cream cones and exploring a city park defined by neatly clipped hedges, classical sculptures and fathers teaching their...

October 28, 2021 | LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster |

Preserving the Warrior Ethos

It is corroded, and the necessary restorative work belongs to us all

July 14, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

The return of antisemitism

Germany after World War I provides a distant mirror

June 22, 2020 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

How to Beat China’s Military-Civil Fusion

China’s strategy relies on poaching foreign technology. Ours should be geared toward stopping them.

June 21, 2020 | Mark Dubowitz, Jonathan Schanzer

Countering China Is for the BIRDs

In 1950, as Cold War tensions were on the rise, President Harry Truman asked allies to stand and be counted. Israel reflexively stepped up and backed the president who bravely supported the creation of...

June 10, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Trump’s Executive Order on Chinese Students Addresses a Complicated—But Real—Issue

This issue requires a surgical scalpel, not a sledgehammer.

November 13, 2019 | Clifford D. May

Justice triumphant

The story of an American who overcame should be told around the world

October 10, 2017 |

Empty Threat or Serious Danger: Assessing North Korea’s Risk to the Homeland

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June 17, 2016 | Thomas Joscelyn

Jihadists Under Investigation

The system was blinking red for months prior to the June 12 terrorist attack in Orlando. Since early 2015, the FBI has repeatedly warned the American public that the threat of violent attacks is...

April 15, 2015 | Clifford D. May

The Case For Heresy

By now, you should be familiar with the name Ayaan Hirsi Ali. You should know at least this much about her: She is brilliant, beautiful, black and she has been banned near Boston. You mi...

July 29, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

Advice to Israelis: Endure the Slander

Hamas wants to kill as many Israeli civilians as possible. It’s been doing all it can to achieve that objective, for example launching missiles at Israel’s international airport and c...

July 23, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

What Are the Jews Supposed To Do?

Missiles over and into Israel. Violent demonstrations in London, Paris and Vienna. Violent demonstrators in Boston and on innumerable university campuses. Calls of "Death to the Jews." W...

February 3, 2014 |

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...

December 16, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Is the Terrorist Threat Declining? The Use and Abuse of Statistics

Earlier this month, terrorism analyst Peter Bergen wrote at CNN that the declining number of...

November 21, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn

Political, Economic, and Security Situation in Africa

Watch the hearing here. Chairman Kaine, Ranking Member Risch...

November 12, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn

Questions They Won’t Answer

Co-authored by Stephen F. Hayes When South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham threatened last week to place a hold in the Senate on all Obama administration nominations until the p...