Fidel Castro

May 29, 2025 | Josh Birenbaum |

Our enemies depend on anonymity. To defeat them, we must unmask them

President Donald Trump’s tariffs are a critical tool to reorganize a broken global trading system and push back on economic coercion by America’s adversaries. Unfortunately, China has...

January 10, 2025 | Mark Dubowitz, Elaine K. Dezenski

South Africa Needs the Trump Treatment

The ANC has been too cozy for too long with the West’s enemies.

January 2, 2021 | Cleo Paskal |

In U.S. backyard: How China embedded itself in Canada

Since the 1970s, there have been important political and economic pro-China vectors emanating out of Montreal and Ottawa. Since then, that have broadened to influential pro-Beijing groups across Canada. Canada...

October 1, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Two More Reasons to Worry About China

Keep an eye on China’s relationship with Cuba, for starters.

February 12, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

The return of the Monroe Doctrine

Sanders aside, Trump finds bipartisan support for a pro-U.S. Venezuelan leader

November 28, 2016 | Mark Dubowitz

America’s News HQ

FDD's Executive Director Mark Dubowitz comments on the death of Fidel Castro and its implications on US foreign policy.  ...

March 30, 2016 | Clifford D. May

Our Man in Havana

“I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.” That was Barack Obama’s “historic” announcement in Cuba last week. But was it true? What...

December 2, 2015 | |

Britain’s Corbyn Is No Laughing Matter

"Few people outside Britain have ever heard of Jeremy Corbyn," the British journalist Nick Cohen ...

December 18, 2014 | Claudia Rosett |

Historic Day for Washington, Havana…and Pyongyang’s Hackers

On a day when hackers working for North Korea managed to shut down the release of an American movie, on American soil, by threatening terrorist attacks on American theaters, one might have suppos...

July 4, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Man And The Myth

Urbi et Orbi, the city and the world, Tehran and the globe. In his turban and clerical robe, softly speaking of peace, Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, resembles a spiritual guide mor...

March 19, 2013 |

Why the Falklands Matter

We should stand up for the United Kingdom in its just claims against Argentina

August 2, 2012 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Gunpowder & Lead

Powering Guantánamo

Last month, I undertook field research into U.S. detention policy at the detention camp operated by Joint Task Force-Guantánamo (JTF-GTMO). While out there, I had the opportunity to interv...

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...

June 7, 2012 | James Kirchick Forward

Transylvanian Drama Over Fascist’s Ashes

In the scenic and enchanting lands of Transylvania, the ashes of a dead fascist have sparked a diplomatic incident. On May 27, the remains of Hungarian writer and politician Jozsef Nyiro...

April 13, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Seymour Hersh’s ‘Justice’

Writing at BuzzFeed, my colleague James Kirchick informs readers...

April 11, 2012 |

Seymour Hersh: Assassination Of JFK Was Form Of “Justice”

"There might have been some justice" in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh said in a letter to a reader. Hersh made the shocki...

April 11, 2012 | Victoria Coates Red State

Why Ozzie Matters

Ozzie Guillén, manager of the newly re-minted Miami Marlins, has earned himself a five-game suspension by declaring his affection for Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in...

March 5, 2012 | James Kirchick Commentary |

The Deceits of Seymour Hersh

Last June, the distinguished American journalist Seymour Hersh published an article in the New Yorker entitled “Iran and the Bomb: How Real Is the Nuclear Threat?” His answer...

August 26, 2011 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report |

A Handy Video Guide to Durban III

Confused about plans of the United Nations General Assembly to host a troubling “high-level” conference next month called Durban III? Who wouldn’t be? This meeting will...

June 13, 2011 | The Weekly Standard

After Fidel

With Castro fading fast, it's time to rethink U.S. policy toward the Cuban regime and give hope to a beleaguered people.