James Risch

January 16, 2026 | Max Meizlish, Daniel Swift

South Africa Eyes Confrontation With Trump Over Growing Ties to China, Russia, Iran

South Africa is testing President Donald Trump’s patience, launching a week-long naval exercise alongside America’s adversaries. China, Russia, Iran, and several other countries in the loosely organized...

November 17, 2025 | Kenan Arkan, Isaac A. Harris, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Cdre. (Ret.) Peter Olive, Craig Singleton

Maritime Protection of Taiwan’s Energy Vulnerability

October 30, 2025 | Ben Cohen, Dmitriy Shapiro

Kidnapping of U.S. Missionary Shines Light on Persecution of Christians in Africa

Concern is growing over the whereabouts of Kevin Rideout, an American missionary abducted on October 21 in the West African state of Niger. The seizure of this 48-year-old pilot, who works for...

July 2, 2025 | Bradley Bowman, Sinan Ciddi

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...

April 2, 2025 | |

‘Insidious Anti-Israel Trend’: U.S. Congress Warns UN Human Rights Council of Sanctions

Lawmakers Threatens Sanctions: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman James Risch (R-ID) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast (R-FL) warned that they would...

February 4, 2025 | Mark Dubowitz, Ben Cohen

USAID was rotten, but Trump needs the ‘soft power’ of foreign aid done right

By abruptly shuttering the US Agency for International Development (USAID) only two weeks after returning to Washington, President Trump is signaling that he will bring accountability and efficiency...

January 10, 2025 | Mariam Wahba |

State Department Calls Out Genocide in Sudan, Heightening Urgency for U.S. Strategy Change

In the most significant U.S. statement on Sudan since the country’s renewed civil war broke out in 2023, Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared on January 7 that members of the Rapid Support Forces...

October 2, 2024 | Richard Goldberg, Bradley Bowman, David Daoud, Hussain Abdul-Hussain, Joe Dougherty

Israel, Iran, and Lebanon: What’s Next?

March 4, 2024 | Cleo Paskal |

COFA and the politics of delay

Tony Zielinski is a regular American citizen, who was enjoying his life in Florida.  Then he read about the problems with the renewals of key elements of the Compacts of Free Association with Palau, the...

May 3, 2023 | John Hardie |

Advance U.S. Interests by Giving Ukraine the Weapons It Needs Now

April 1, 2023 | Natalie Ecanow |

With Eyes on Israel, Biden Ignores Judicial Crisis in Neighboring Lebanon

Washington has a vested interest in justice for the American victims of the blast and in spurring an overhaul of Lebanon’s broken political system.

March 29, 2023 | Anthony Ruggiero |

Examining U.S. Sanctions Policy, Implementation, and Enforcement

November 7, 2022 | Eric S. Edelman, David J. Kramer

Now Is Not the Time to Negotiate with Putin

Pushing for negotiations could undermine the morale of the Ukrainians fighting in the field.

August 2, 2022 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Bradley Bowman

As Pelosi visits Taiwan, don’t miss the action on China in Congress

All eyes are understandably on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan this week as Beijing issues threats and rattles its saber. But those interested in supporting the free people of Taiwan...

June 17, 2022 | David Adesnik |

Across Party Lines, Senators Tell Biden to Get Tough on Assad

At a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, senators from across the political spectrum pressed the Biden administration to isolate Syria’s criminal regime and fully enforce the...

May 25, 2022 | Mark Dubowitz |

The JCPOA Negotiations and United States’ Policy on Iran Moving Forward

April 6, 2022 | David Adesnik |

The Ruthless Realpolitik of the United Arab Emirates

Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed has cozied up to Bashar al-Assad, and relations with the U.S. are at an all-time low.

February 18, 2022 | Toby Dershowitz, Orde Kittrie

Biden Can Reset the UN’s Discriminatory Approach to Israel

The United States led when it persuaded the General Assembly to repeal its 1975 vote declaring Zionism to be racism. It should now actively and decisively lead the effort to end the Commission of Inquiry, which the UNHRC created to conclude essentially the same thing.

January 20, 2022 | David Adesnik |

Congress Delivers Bipartisan Warning to Biden on Syria Policy

The chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate committees on foreign relations sent a letter last week to President Joe Biden warning him that “[t]acit approval of formal diplomatic engagement...

May 4, 2021 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Tasha Jhangiani

Any reduction in Energy Department’s cybersecurity resources a mistake

Excerpt In March, a bipartisan group of senators led by Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Angus King (I-Maine) sent a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm expressing support for the department’s...