Central Intelligence Agency

The Intelligence Community Must Work to Gain the Public’s Trust

As threats mount across the globe, the public’s faith in government institutions has been shaken.

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: November

Iran’s Nuclear Negotiators Make the U.S. Sit at the Kiddie Table

The Islamic Republic relishes humiliating Americans while granting no concessions.

Russia’s Power Games Extend to the Orthodox Church

Pushing back against Russia’s multipronged assault on the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which includes Putin and Erdogan’s coordinated pressure on an institution they see as posing a threat to their respective illiberal projects, requires devising and implementing a concerted transatlantic strategy.

Iran nuclear talks are restarting, but they’re pointless: Biden needs a bipartisan strategy

President Joe Biden’s Iran policy is failing, and the indirect negotiations restarting in Vienna Nov. 29 won’t yield a win. Biden assumed that goodwill gestures and proactive concessions would bring...

Iran Won’t Stop Until It Has a Nuclear Weapon

Khamenei and his regime haven’t gone to all this trouble merely to become a ‘threshold state.’

Goodbye To All That

Biden may usher in a new era in which we won’t really have an Iran policy at all.

America’s Avengers

REVIEW: 'Countdown Bin Laden' by Chris Wallace with Mitch Weiss

Biden Is Running a Hostage Negotiation With the Taliban

Making concessions now will only encourage terrorism.

Biden Needs an Effective—and Coercive— Iran Strategy

The Biden administration seems to be on the wrong track. No strategy against the Islamic Republic of Iran can be effective without sustained coercive pressure. Going back in time, the situation is reminiscent...

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Late August

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Biden’s catastrophe

Responding to the disastrous fallout of his Afghanistan withdrawal, President Joe Biden declared that the “buck stops with me” — and then spent the rest of his first public address on the crisis...

A Breakout Moment for a New Approach to Iran

Neither arms control nor military force is realistic. What would a more practical policy look like?

A Legacy of Terror

“Bin Laden? Why are you reading that?” asked the proprietor of an Israeli bodega just off the Tel Aviv beach. I was buying a bottle of water, but the shop was full of multicolored flags, thongs,...

Nearly half of Afghanistan’s provincial capitals under threat from Taliban

With rapid gains in recent days, the Taliban now threatens 16 of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals, while 18 of the provinces in their entirety are under direct threat of falling under Taliban control,...

International Criminal Court

In Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s clerics have groomed and promoted their ruthless enforcer

This month, Iran held the most boring — and most consequential — presidential election in its history. Boring because the election was rigged virtually from the start. What made it consequential is...

Fixing Shortcomings in the Senate’s Endless Frontier Legislation

The Senate passed legislation earlier this month aimed at boosting U.S. technological competitiveness with China; however, last-minute changes resulted in significant funding reductions for several of the...

Behind the Black Bloc

An Overview of Militant Anarchism and Anti-Fascism

Leaving Afghanistan

There’s not much time left to mitigate the consequences