Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Zero Shells for $533 Million

Turkey’s Expanding Stake in America’s Munitions Base On Aug. 12, ProPublica documented what the Pentagon’s inspector general had already confirmed in July: a Texas plant built...

Do not let China win Ukraine’s reconstruction

Beijing must not benefit from reconstruction contracts for infrastructure it helped destroy

Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978

How to break Iran’s terrorist regime

“Gradually, then suddenly” could work

Protected in Name Only: HIPAA’s Health Data Gap Is Becoming a National Security Risk

Protected health data is only as secure as the system designed to protect it.

Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Mitigating Risks Related to Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (DFARS Case 2021-D011)

For Tehran, negotiation is war by other means

Iran’s rulers think Trump is as beatable as his predecessors

Trump Signs Executive Order Addressing Structural Gaps in Trade Enforcement

High tariffs create strong incentives to evade them. More than 40 percent of textile shipments flagged for analysis by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) were either “mis-declared or mis-described”...

What Does Winning In Iran Look Like?

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

Letter to the POTUS

A few hopefully helpful notes on Iran’s “Islamic Revolutionaries”

U.S.-China Summit Underlines Stalemate Between Washington and Beijing

The United States and China remain stuck in a stalemate, but Beijing isn’t likely to be disappointed. President Trump and Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping convened in Beijing on May 14 to 15 to...

A Gameplan for American Economic Security:

Supercharging U.S. Statecraft, from an Economic Pentagon to the Near-Global Economy

The dangerous national security shell company game

A national security crisis is unfolding before our eyes and we can’t even see it. A failure by the federal government to enforce the law is allowing hidden Chinese companies to use opacity loopholes and...

Washington Should Not Compromise — It Has The Upper Hand Over Iran

Despite appearances, the ceasefire is no guarantee of the Islamic Republic’s survival.


The Broken Promise of the Panama Papers, Ten Years On

The scandal thrust financial secrecy into the spotlight. Why is dirty money still such a big problem?

U.S. Redirects Tehran Regime’s Illicit Wealth to Its Victims

Tehran is getting evicted. For about three decades, the clerical regime has owned prime real estate in Midtown Manhattan. On March 23, the Southern District of New York announced its entry into a settlement...

Trump acted militarily, now the US must prevent Iran’s ayatollahs from rebuilding

President Trump went to war with Iran, but success depends on whether Washington ensures the Iranian regime truly ends.

Forging a New Critical Minerals Reality

Strengthening Transparency, Eligibility, and Jurisdictional Scope in Investment Reviews