John McCain

May 13, 2021 | Bradley Bowman |

We Should Not Underestimate China’s Military Ambitions

Suggestions that the People’s Republic is a ‘paper dragon’ are ill-informed and misleading.

June 3, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

What the alien invasion has wrought

Attacked by a common enemy, earthlings have not united

November 21, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

Substitutes for victory in Afghanistan

President Trump might want to consider new and improved policy options.

April 5, 2018 | Romany Shaker

Egypt’s Sisi Reelected with 97 Percent of Vote

With no serious challenger in the race, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi won a second four-year term last week, winning 21,835,387 votes or 97.08 percent of the total, according to...

July 5, 2017 | David Adesnik

House Hawks Look to Outbid Trump on Defense

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis hinted in recent congressional testimony that Presi...

February 9, 2017 | Bill Roggio

White House: Yemen raid a ‘huge success,’ anyone who suggests otherwise owes an apology

White House spokesman Sean Spicer again defended President Donald Trump's first significant military action, a raid on Al Qaeda forces in Yemen that resulted in the deaths of a Navy SEAL, an...

March 3, 2016 | John Hannah |

If the Kurds Go Broke, It’s Lights Out for Obama’s War on the Islamic State

Here’s a worrying bit of news: America’s best ally in the war against the Islamic State, Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), is nearly broke. That’s a major proble...

June 29, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Why Germany is the Weakest Western Link in Nuclear Talks With Iran

With the Iran nuclear talks entering the final stretch in Vienna, Germany’s role in the negotiations to end Tehran’s illicit nuclear weapons program has largely escaped scrutiny....

May 22, 2015 |

Call it ‘Fail Jazeera’ — Why The Network is Imploding

For Al Jazeera, May is the cruelest month. In just the past four weeks, two ex-employees have filed separate lawsuits totaling some $100 million, three executives have resigned from its New York-...

May 15, 2015 |

The Camp David Summit: Major or modest moves in U.S.-Gulf ties?

In the run up to Thursday's summit at Camp David, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had predicted that &ldq...

January 20, 2015 | Michael Ledeen |

The Citizen’s Guide to Regime Change

All of a sudden, it’s OK to talk seriously about regime change in Iran and even elsewhere.  It had been a taboo subject since the final years of the G.W. Bush administration, aside fro...

December 11, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Benghazi Report

Co-authored by Stephen F. Hayes After a long day on November 13, 2013, Speaker of the House John Boehner walked down the marble hallways of the Longworth House Office Building t...

August 22, 2013 | Clifford D. May

Way Down in Egypt’s Land

President Obama wants to keep aid to Egypt’s new military rulers flowing. So does Republican former ambassador John Bolton. Democratic (and Muslim) congressman Keith Ellison wants to cut ai...

June 19, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal

Is Obama a Berliner?

BERLIN — Obama: Ist er ein Berliner? The German weekly Die Zeit posed this question...

March 21, 2013 | |

FDD Applauds Bipartisan Syria Legislation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC -- During the week marking the two year anniversary of the crisis in Syria, Congress introduced two bil...

January 23, 2013 |

The Last Liberal: The Legacy of Joe Lieberman

In January 2004, the New Republic endorsed Joe Lieberman for president. By this time, recriminations against Democrats who had supported the Iraq War (or, in the parlance of the American...

January 17, 2013 | Clifford D. May

Osama and the Two Nazirs

Their deaths are instructive.

January 9, 2013 | Jonathan Schanzer

A Nasty Neologism

The term Islamophobia treats political ideology as akin to race.

January 2, 2013 | |

FDD Praises New Iran Sanctions in Defense Authorization Act

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – With the United States and its key European allies preparing to enter negotiations over Iran’s unlawful nuclear a...

December 20, 2012 | |

FDD Commends Congress for New Iran Sanctions

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – With the United States and its key European allies soon to enter negotiations over Iran’s un...