‘Principled Realism’
Donald Trump's recent sojourn in the Middle East leaves the United States where it was before the president departed: His administration remains committed to containing Iran while...
Earth
The battles of Britain and Egypt
The slaughter of 22 concertgoers in Manchester last week was followed four days later by the murder of 29 Christians traveling by bus to a monastery in the desert south of Cairo. The Is...
Op-eds
Defending the civilized world
In an inaugural address that was more purposeful than poetic, President Trump last Friday vowed to “unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate from...
Op-eds
The sorrow and the pity in Syria
Over the last five years, Syria has been descending into a hell on Earth. Over the last four months, the lowest depths of the...
Op-eds
The Hezbollah Threat
From the Marine Barracks Bombing to Today
Policy Briefs
How the Islamic State’s Propaganda Feeds Into Its Global Expansion Efforts
Co-written by Bridget Moreng and Nathaniel Barr Even before the dramatic blitzkrieg...
Op-eds
Call it genocide
In the Yemeni port city of Aden earlier this month, Islamists attacked a Catholic home for the indigent elderly. The militants, believed to be soldiers of the Islamic State, shot the security gua...
Op-eds
Politicians in Albert Einstein’s German hometown fund anti-Semitic lecture
A municipally funded adult education center in Ulm – the birthplace of Albert Einstein – is slated to host next Wednesday a speaker accused of stoking anti-Semitism and hatred of Isra...
Op-eds
Khomeini’s Grandson Tests Iran’s Political Waters
As Iran’s fractious political elites prepare for the February 25, 2016, elections for parliament and the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that selects the supreme leader, th...
Op-eds
The Ayatollah’s Message to the World
The supreme leader of Iran has published a book entitled Palestine. As you would expect, it is a call to the Muslim world to destroy Israel and establish control over its territory...
Op-eds
Heading Toward An EMP Catastrophe
For over a decade now, since the Congressional EMP Commission delivered its first report to Congress eleven years ago in July of 2004, various Senate and House committees have heard from numerous scie...
Congressional Testimonies
Terrorist Financing and the Implications for Canada
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Congressional Testimonies
How Financial Power Can Be Used To Save Iconic Species From Extinction
On Earth Day 2015, prospects for many of the planet’s most iconic species look bleak. Unless poaching rates decline across Africa, the rhino and elephant ...
Op-eds
Sultan of Turkey: Erdogan’s Shameless Power Play
Co-authored by Gabriel Mitchell A row erupted within Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on March 21, after the deputy prime minister brazenly condemned Pr...
Op-eds
How America Was Misled on al Qaeda’s Demise
Co-authored by Stephen F. Hayes In the early-morning hours of May 2, 2011, a small team of American military and intelligence professionals landed inside the high white walls of...
Op-eds
Saudi King Salman’s Audacious Power Play
“You deserve more.” That’s what Saudi Arabia’s new King Salman tweeted to his peopl...
Op-eds
From Salman Rushdie to Charlie Hebdo
A quarter-century of Western fecklessness led from the former to the latter.
Op-eds
Book Review: ‘A Time to Attack’ By Matthew Kroenig
Here's a prediction: Next month in Vienna, Iran and the P5+1 world powers will extend the interim agreement they struck six months ago on Iran's nuclear program. Secretary of State ...
Op-eds
Drone Drama
In 1996, al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden issued a formal declaration of war against the United State...
Op-eds
A Covert Story
There is probably no harder beat in Washington than intelligence. Journalists rarely have sources inside the Central Intelligence Agency who are not authorized, and when they do, o...