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Beyond the Embargo: A Toolkit for Squeezing the Cuban Regime
Opponents of U.S. sanctions often cite Cuba as “Exhibit A” for why sanctions don’t work. The United States has maintained an embargo on the island for more than six decades — but to what end? Cuba’s...
Insights
Reported U.S. Intelligence Notes Threat From Cuba’s Russian and Iranian Drone Stockpile
Latest Developments Cuba Reportedly Acquired 300 Drones, Is Eyeing U.S. Targets: Cuba has reportedly procured some 300 military drones and discussed using them against possible U.S. targets, including...
Flash Briefs
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...
Op-eds
Why Do We Allow Iran into American Classrooms?
Second graders are learning that non-Muslims are “the worst of all creatures” at the Brighter Horizons Academy near Dallas, Texas, according to a recent report by the Middle East Forum. The curriculum...
Op-eds
Exposure of Major Chinese-Linked Chip Smuggling Operations Shows Limits of Industry Self-Policing
China is still behind the United States in the AI race, but it is willing to pay a lot to catch up fast. The Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an indictment on March 19 against Yih-Shyan Liaw, Ruei-Tsang...
Policy Briefs
Petition for Reconsideration of Action in Rulemaking Proceeding Application for Review of Action in Rulemaking Proceeding
Public Comments
Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act: Revisions to Reporting Requirements
Public Comments
U.S. Must Apply Greater Pressure on Russia To Achieve Peace in Ukraine
Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy met at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 22 shortly before U.S. officials flew to Moscow for another sit-down with Russian President Vladimir...
Policy Briefs
Florida Follows Texas, Brands Muslim Brotherhood as Terrorist Organization
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an executive order on December 9 designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as terrorist organizations. In doing so, DeSantis...
Policy Briefs
Scrutiny Rising Over Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Ties to Terrorism — and Turkey’s Government
Turkish entities with ties to the Erdogan government have increasingly become enablers of CAIR Action’s emerging political influence machine inside the United States.
Op-eds
China’s Influence Operation in US Education Was Supposed To Be Shut Down, But Did Closing the Confucius Institutes Only Make It Stronger?
The Chinese government has quietly altered its methods as President Donald Trump announces plans to double the Chinese student population in the US
Op-eds
Russia Continues Deadly Attacks on Ukraine Ahead of Witkoff Visit as Zelenskyy Looks to European Allies
Daily Russian Barrages Continue: Russia continued its daily strikes on Ukraine on December 1 with deadly drone and missile barrages. Four people were killed and at least 40 were...
Flash Briefs
Meet the Muslim Brotherhood
Working to reestablish the caliphate for almost a century
Op-eds
‘Glorious Day of Success’: Hamas Marks October 7 Massacre Anniversary With Rocket Attack on Israeli Community
Israel Under Attack Two Years After October 7: Terrorists in Gaza launched a rocket against the southern Israeli community of Netiv Ha’Asara as residents mourned 17 of their neighbors...
Flash Briefs
Freedom for Iran: Learning From U.S. Support for Polish Anti-Communists in the 1980s
Memos
Texas Grabs Malign Foreign Influence by the Horns
As U.S. adversaries barrage American citizens with harmful propaganda, the Lone Star state is coming out swinging. On September 2, Texas stood up a first-of-its-kind “hostile foreign adversaries unit”...
Policy Briefs
As American Scrutiny of Muslim Brotherhood Increases, Lawmakers Overlook Qatar’s Support of the Extremist Group
The organization is a decentralized, transnational Islamist movement dedicated to the mission of establishing a global caliphate.
Op-eds
S-400s or not, don’t give Turkey the F-35
Thomas Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkey, suggested on Sunday that the impasse with Washington over Ankara’s procurement of the Russian S-400 air and missile defense system could be resolved...
Op-eds
Qatar-Based Group Aligned With Muslim Brotherhood Backs Iran Against Israel
A network of Islamist clerics is exploiting the conflict in Iran to push its hardline agenda. Scholars aligned with the pro-Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar-based International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS)...