Deconstructing the Inauguration: No, not that one
We have a country that is geopolitically sophisticated, with close ties to the U.S., Japan and Taiwan, and is in a highly strategic location. So who showed up to Palau’s party, and who didn’t?
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Israel’s Gift
Lebanese patriots now have a chance to throw off Tehran’s yoke
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Don’t know much about Middle Eastern history
The appalling ignorance of Hamas supporters
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Northern Mariana: Time to close China’s backdoor into the U.S.
‘The Northern Marianas economy continues to struggle, and the government remains in deep fiscal distress. These are conditions that make the commonwealth acutely vulnerable to CCP exploitation’.
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Putin Is Making a Mockery of the United Nations
The Biden administration must finally recognize what engagement at the U.N. can and cannot do.
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The authoritarian conquest of the UN
Accommodation and engagement are no solution
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George Will and American power
How his conservative sensibility informs his approach to foreign policy
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The 100-year-old promise
In theory, who doesn’t believe in self-determination, the idea, developed in the 19th century, that all nations have a right to sovereignty? By the early 20th century,...
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The war against history
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” This, as you may recall, was the slogan of the totalitarian state imagined by Georg...
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Tracking freedom’s enemies
If I were to ask an intelligent person like you what happened in the 20th century, or the 19th or the 18th, you could probably sum up the most significant developments. But if I asked you what is...
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Cutthroats of the Holy Land
Over the years, Israelis have had to defend themselves from foreign armies, suicide bombers and missiles. Over recent weeks, they’ve been confronting a new threat: young Palestinians wieldi...
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Jesus of Palestine?
The members of the American Studies Association care deeply about historical truth, which is why they protested so strenuously when, over Christmas, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas...
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Durban III: The Good News and the Bad News
In the United Nations cosmos of Orwellian ventures, one of the prominent features has become the series of conferences named for an initial 2001 conclave in Durban, South Africa. That gathering w...
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Can Obama Accept the Prize?
By Dr. J Peter Pham and Ronald D. Rotunda People can, and undoubtedly will, argue for some time about whether President Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Meanwhile, though,...
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Peace Porridge
President Barack Obama's premature Nobel Peace Prize has catalyzed a useful debate, in which the real question is less the timing of the award than what, exactly, he has won. How are we to r...
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Why Not To Join The U.N. Human Rights Council
It has a history of condoning abuses.
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A Gathering of BMWs & Tyrannies
Geneva — So, how many BMWs does it take to make one United Nations Human Rights Council? Many — to judge by the scene I came across Monday evening in the parking lot of the U...
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Future Jihad
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Walid Phares, a Professor of Middle East Studies and Religious Conflict at the LLS Program of Florida Atlantic University and a visiting Professor at Na...
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Pictures From an Institution
From Oil-for-Food to peacekeeper rape to bribery in the procurement department, from nepotism to fraud to theft, the modern United Nations has become a carnival of scandal -- all the while unable...
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The Enduring Consequences of the First World War
If the First World War was to be the "war to end all wars," the Paris Peace Conference established a "peace to end all peace." In both the scale of its devastation and in its political consequenc...