America’s enemies want us at each other’s throats over Charlie Kirk — don’t take the bait
As Americans grappled with grief over the assassination of Charlie Kirk, malign foreign governments maneuvered to exploit the shock.
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Using Human Rights as a Weapon Against Iran
The uprising began because of an Iranian woman’s hair. In September 2022, Iran’s morality police arrested and then killed 22-year-old Mahsa Amini for allegedly wearing her hijab improperly. Her murder...
Op-eds
What the U.S. Can Learn from Israel’s ‘Qatargate’ Affair
White House Correspondents’ season just wrapped in Washington. Last weekend, celebrities, journalists, and politicians descended on Washington to celebrate the free press. Traditionally, the weekend...
Insights
Targeting Iran’s agents of influence
The British government unveiled an important new measure to combat influence originating from Tehran. Now it has to get to work enforcing it.The British government unveiled an important new measure to combat influence originating from Tehran. Now it has to get to work enforcing it.
Op-eds
The ‘First Amendment’ Dodge at UC Berkeley
The issues on campus and elsewhere extend beyond free-speech protections.
Op-eds
The State Department still needs to combat Chinese and Russian lies
Congress just killed the U.S. government office dedicated to fighting Iranian, Chinese, and Russian propaganda overseas. The specific act was the decision not to reauthorize the State Department’s Global...
Op-eds
How Facebook Whitewashes ‘From the River to the Sea’
The brilliance of the slogan “From the river to the sea,” is that it allows protesters to call for dismantling the State of Israel, and then insist that they have articulated nothing more than “an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence.” ...
Op-eds
State Laws on Israel Boycotts Hold Up in Court
The BDS movement hates these laws because they work.
Op-eds
Germany Closes Islamic Center Due to Iran and Hezbollah Ties
Berlin shut down the Islamic Center Hamburg (IZH) due to its ties with Iran and Hezbollah and its promotion of radical Islamism, the German Interior Ministry said on July 24. Acting...
Flash Briefs
Attack TikTok
Cut its Chinese Communist ties
Op-eds
Anti-Israel faculty group adds fuel to a raging fire
“It’s not safe to be a Jewish student at UC Berkeley.” That was the message a Jewish student delivered before the House of Representatives’ Education and the Workforce Committee last...
Op-eds
Washington Needs to Fight Russia’s Information War Using This Tactic
The US should turn Moscow’s 'reflexive control' tactic against the Kremlin: Instead of selling the American Dream, Washington should show Russians 'the Russian dream.'
Op-eds
Time to Sanction the Kremlin’s Ministry of Truth
When media platforms obey their paymasters’ orders to become complicit in their crimes, they are no longer media.
Op-eds
Militia Violent Extremists in the United States: Understanding the Evolution of the Threat
Introduction In the United States, militia violent extremists (MVEs) embrace violence in service of antigovernment and anti-authority ideology. MVEs are just one part of the militia movement: movement adherents...
Op-eds
Foreign Disinformation: What the US Government Can Start Doing Now
The Kremlin is engaged in a “global influence campaign to destabilize sovereign countries,” including the United States, the U.S. Treasury Department reaffirmed, as it slapped sanctions on four Ukrainians...
Op-eds
Beijing’s American Hustle
How Chinese Grand Strategy Exploits U.S. Power
Op-eds
Progress on ‘the Jewish question’
Anti-Semites suffer defeats in the U.K. and the U.S.
Op-eds
Replacing patriotism with tribalism
Just after last week’s terrorist attack in Barcelona, a pro-Islamic State website posted video from the scene along with a message in Arabic saying, “Terror is filling the hearts of t...
Op-eds
War on Campus
Don’t look to college “leaders” to defend free speech and shut down the rioters. It doesn’t work that way. Universities almost always collapse in the face of student prote...
Op-eds
The “ideals of 1776”
Andrew Roberts, one of the world’s great historians, took America to task last week. Let me rephrase that: He took Americans to task for what they — or rather we — are doing to...