Communist party

August 22, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

The problem with Republican isolationism

Abandoning Ukraine is no way to make America great again

July 19, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Renewing NATO

Peace requires deterrence which requires military might

April 19, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Losing Latin America

The U.S. retreats while China’s Communist rulers advance

December 29, 2022 | Cleo Paskal |

The Case for an India-First South Asia Strategy

Against the backdrop of deepening strategic com-petition with Beijing, Washington’s attention is steadily turning to the need for a comprehensive strategy by which to engage South Asia. Less well...

November 30, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Americans are climate criminals and must pay

That’s the indictment handed up by COP27

November 24, 2021 | Clifford D. May

Biden’s left banker

A nominee with a colorful story and ‘radical’ beliefs

September 1, 2020 | Alireza Nader, Benjamin Weinthal

Iranian Laborers Need Our Help

With the celebration of American employees on Labor Day in early September, U.S. workers enjoy what their counterparts in the highly repressive Islamic Republic of Iran cannot: the right to form and join...

May 27, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Communist China’s imperialist dreams

The Belt and Road Initiative is about more than infrastructure

May 7, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Explaining the Intense Diplomatic Battle Between the U.S. and China

The Chinese Communist Party’s ‘Wolf Warriors’ have Secretary Pompeo in their crosshairs right now, but their agenda will outlast the Trump administration.

February 27, 2020 | David Maxwell |

China’s political warfare strategy takes hit from coronavirus

The Wuhan coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2 as the World Health Organization has named it and the Chinese would prefer it to be called, may be on the verge of becoming a pandemic. If it continues to spread,...

May 24, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

Iran’s latest unfree and unfair election

News must be new but it needn’t be surprising. The decidedly unsurprising news out of Iran last week: There was an election (of sorts) and the winner was Hassan Rouhani, the...

June 8, 2015 |

Tiananmen and China’s Long March

In the 66 years since Mao Tse-tung founded the People’s Republic of China, there has been just one brief spell in which the people of China escaped the chains of their rulers, enough to spe...

February 17, 2015 | Michael Ledeen |

A Chance for Italy to Distinguish Itself

A new president has just taken office in Italy, but since the country only makes news when something bad or sexy—or both—happens, most readers north and west of the Alps probably won&...

April 21, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

Out with the Old

Italy has long been Europe’s political laboratory, having invented fascism, incubated eurocommunism, launched the postwar economic miracle, and brought the social democratic nanny state to...

September 19, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

Vladimir Putin, the Neo-Soviet Man

Vladimir Putin and I are about the same age and we went to college at about the same time. As a matter of fact, we went to college together. No, really. Putin attended Leningrad State Un...

June 4, 2013 |

The Tiananmen Reckoning

It’s 24 years since China’s government crushed the mass uprising we remember by the name of Tiananmen Square. I was there, reporting then for the Wall Street Journal’s...

January 23, 2013 |

The Last Liberal: The Legacy of Joe Lieberman

In January 2004, the New Republic endorsed Joe Lieberman for president. By this time, recriminations against Democrats who had supported the Iraq War (or, in the parlance of the American...

November 15, 2012 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

Oliver Stone’s Party Line

Re-litigating the Cold War and defending the honor of poor old Joe Stalin.

July 12, 2012 | James Kirchick Foreign Affairs

Wrong Way Down the Danube

How Hungary's Democratic Backsliding Threatens Europe

June 19, 2012 | James Kirchick New York Daily News

Hiding Cuba’s Crimes Behind Gay Rights Lies

On December 7, 1990, Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas ended his life. Forced into exile because of his political dissidence, and dying slowly of AIDS, he could no longer withstand the phys...