Leninism

January 28, 2025 | Matt Pottinger |

Memo to Trump: Beware the ‘Reverse Teddy’

I was proud to serve the president in his first term. But Trump’s strength in the Western Hemisphere could portend weakness in Europe and Asia in his second, writes Matt Pottinger.

June 28, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Yes, Xi Jinping is a dictator, and he should be proud of it

What’s Xi Jinping getting his knickers in a knot about? Was it a diplomatic faux pas for President Biden to call him — at a campaign fundraiser — a “dictator”? Of course. Was...

May 31, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

The fantasy of multipolarity

It would lead to brave new world order dominated by Chinese Communists

May 3, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

The new – or perhaps renewed – Cold War

You can’t win it if you don’t know you’re in it

August 23, 2021 | Matt Pottinger |

Beijing’s American Hustle

How Chinese Grand Strategy Exploits U.S. Power

March 31, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

The end of the rules-based order?

China’s rulers have a new and unimproved version

February 10, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Who killed Lokman Slim?

We know. The question is what will we do about it?

July 8, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Study war some more

World War II and the Cold War carry useful lessons

November 15, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

Came the revolution

My political orientation has evolved slowly over decades. With one exception: I became anti-Soviet and anti-Communist overnight. More quickly than that, actually. The year was 1972. I wa...

February 17, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Face-Off

Donald Trump has promised a foreign policy of muscular retrenchment, in which a better-resourced U.S. military intimidates our enemies without serving as a global cop. More than any pr...

March 30, 2016 | Clifford D. May

Our Man in Havana

“I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.” That was Barack Obama’s “historic” announcement in Cuba last week. But was it true? What...

September 21, 2015 | John Hannah |

Erdogan’s Deadly Ambitions

We break from our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this disturbing news: Turkey, a vital NATO ally, is teetering on the brink of civil war. Dormant for more than two years thanks to a...

May 13, 2014 | Jonathan Kay

The Politics of Genocide

Spring is a season for black memories. April 24 marked the beginning of the Armenian Genocide in 1915. April 27 was Yom HaShoah, a day for Holocaust remembrance. The Rwandan Genocide, in which Hu...

September 19, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

Vladimir Putin, the Neo-Soviet Man

Vladimir Putin and I are about the same age and we went to college at about the same time. As a matter of fact, we went to college together. No, really. Putin attended Leningrad State Un...

May 14, 2013 | John Hannah |

Erdogan’s Great Gamble

Something quite extraordinary -- perhaps even historic -- is afoot in Turkey. The country's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is engaged in a colossal roll of the political dice, an act...

November 15, 2012 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

Oliver Stone’s Party Line

Re-litigating the Cold War and defending the honor of poor old Joe Stalin.

December 15, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

What’s Islam Got to Do with It?

To prohibit the question is to invite disaster.

June 13, 2011 | Scripps Howard News Service

Carter’s Confusion

Let’s be fair to Jimmy Carter. Let’s suppose he isn’t indulging in egotistical grandstanding, that he doesn’t harbor a deep-seated bias against Israel, and that he’s...

April 17, 2008 |

Carter’s Confusion


Former US president Jimmy Carter in Ramallah.
Former US president Jimmy Carter in Ramallah.

Let’s be fair to Jimmy Carter. Let’s suppose he isn’t indulging in egotistical grandstanding, that he doesn’t harbor a deep-seated bias against Israel, and that he’s not been influenced by the millions of dollars Islamists have provided to his Carter Center. Let’s suppose his freelance diplomacy is sincerely in pursuit of the elusive path to peace in the Middle East.