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10 Ways the U.S. Can Strengthen Deterrence in the Taiwan Strait

The UN Arms Embargo on Sudan Is Broken. America Has a Plan to Fix It

The U.S. is rightly pushing the UN Security Council to expand the Sudan arms embargo before it expires this Saturday. Outlined by Ambassador Mike Waltz and Senior Advisor Massad Boulos, the proposal...

7 Ways the U.S. Is Trying To Defend Its Water System From Hackers

In the wake of nationwide cyberattacks on America’s water infrastructure, the Trump administration launched Project Watershed 250 on August 31. The six-month pilot, based in Texas, pairs local water...

Designation-Restrict the Operation of Unmanned Aircraft in Close Proximity to a Fixed Site Facility

Mapping Qatar’s $400 Billion Footprint in the United States

Readout of meetings with senior defense officials in Taiwan, Japan

How America can fight back against enemy propaganda

As Iran’s viral Lego videos, which spread anti-Western narratives through Lego-style animations and rap tracks, reach global audiences, the State Department’s call for diplomats to fight against...

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...

To Prevent Antisemitism in Schools Like Berkeley, Enforce the Rules Already on the Books

At California’s Berkeley High School (BHS), teachers are interrupting their normally-scheduled classroom lessons to talk about the Iran war. Given the Berkeley school district’s dismal...

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

Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act: Revisions to Reporting Requirements

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...

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

From Playground to Classroom

The Spread of Antisemitism in K-12 Schools

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...

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...

Innovation in the Crosshairs

Countering China’s Industrial Espionage

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...

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...

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...