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April 14, 2026 | Logan Rolleigh, Cameron McMillan

8 Things To Know About Marine Expeditionary Units

Two U.S. Marine Expeditionary Units (MEUs) are poised to play a role in the Middle East as a tenuous ceasefire takes hold between the United States and Iran. The 31st MEU, based in Okinawa, Japan, arrived...

March 27, 2026 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Richard Goldberg, Max Meizlish, Joe Dougherty

The Strait of Hormuz: The Military, Energy, and Economic Challenges

January 28, 2026 | Jack Burnham, Johanna Yang

Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act: Revisions to Reporting Requirements

November 30, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

Trump’s Venezuela push tackles the cocaine cartels — and Maduro’s illicit regime

In January President Donald Trump’s Special Presidential Envoy Richard Grenell held extensive talks with Venezuelan dictator Nicholás Maduro that included discussions of Venezuela receiving...

September 30, 2025 | Charlie Laderman, Nazee Moinian

Freedom for Iran: Learning From U.S. Support for Polish Anti-Communists in the 1980s

September 10, 2025 | Brandy Shufutinsky |

From Playground to Classroom

The Spread of Antisemitism in K-12 Schools

August 27, 2025 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Can Syria’s New Leaders and U.S.-Backed Forces Unite to Defeat ISIS?

US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), the Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led a delegation to Syria that met with Syria’s transitional President, Ahmed al-Shara’a, on...

July 30, 2025 | Jiwon Ma, Stefan Videnovic

New York Acts To Avert Cyberattacks Against State’s Drinking Water Systems

With the federal government slow to act, New York State government is stepping in to protect its water systems from cyber threats. On July 22, Governor Kathy Hochul announced a new $2.5 million cybersecurity...

July 23, 2025 | Emily de La Bruyère |

Innovation in the Crosshairs

Countering China’s Industrial Espionage

July 23, 2025 | David May |

UNRWA Forces Refugee Status on Palestinians in Perpetuity — Even Against Their Wishes

A Palestinian walks into a UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) office and asks to be removed from its refugee registry. UNRWA says no. It sounds like the start of a bad joke. But the joke has been going...

July 11, 2025 | Simone Weichselbaum |

Lying to America’s Kids about Israel

More propaganda may soon be coming to a school near you, thanks to some of the same groups that have already gotten calls for Israel’s destruction into K-12 curricula. Pro-Palestinian activists, who...

June 25, 2025 | Will Selber |

2 US Islamic State supporters arrested in June on terrorism charges

Over the past month, US law enforcement authorities arrested two Americans on terrorism charges, including charging one individual with “attempting to provide material support to [the Islamic State].”   On...

May 17, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Bradley Bowman

How To Ensure Trump’s Golden Dome Effort Succeeds

Every President since the 9/11 attack on the United States has said defense of the homeland is the number one national security priority, yet the only U.S. airspace defended from cruise missile threats...

May 16, 2025 | Elaine K. Dezenski, Josh Birenbaum

Examining the Threats to America’s Critical Minerals Supply Chain

May 14, 2025 | Brandy Shufutinsky |

How extremism reaches from Gaza into American classrooms

Organizations with terrorist ties are shaping young minds by training teachers in kindergarten through 12th-grade classrooms across the country.

May 2, 2025 | Jack Burnham |

Seeking to Expand Its Lead in Fusion Technology, China Accelerates Construction on New Reactor Project

China is racing ahead to expand its global lead in fusion technology. On April 29, IEEE Spectrum reported that construction had accelerated on a likely fusion research facility in Mianyang, Sichuan, with...

May 1, 2025 | Brigette Herbst |

Pro-Hamas Activists Tell Teachers to Break the Law and Strike on May Day

Pro-Hamas activists are telling teachers to break the law. Labor for Palestine, a coalition of union groups, is calling on teachers to walk out on May Day. This is not a lone incident but rather part of...

April 2, 2025 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Bill Advancing Maximum Support for the Iranian People

Solidarity with the Iranian people is rising in the U.S. Congress. Reps. Joe Wilson (R-SC) and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) introduced a bill on the evening of April 2 calling for “maximum support” to the...

February 23, 2025 | Ivana Stradner, Marina Chernin

Why Russia Wants to See California Secede

The Kremlin has a long history dealing with secessionist movements within the Russian and Soviet empires. Now Moscow is using the experience to weaponize secession movements elsewhere.

February 11, 2025 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

How Trump’s war on cartel cash can stop fentanyl enablers — and save American lives

“China and the Mexican cartels are not trying to create drug addicts — they [are] trying and succeeding at killing off our people — primarily young men. If we were in a traditional war with over...