Mitch McConnell

April 10, 2024 | Elaine K. Dezenski, Josh Birenbaum

Congress just touching the TikTok tip of the iceberg of China’s spying

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell this week urged the chamber to take up the bipartisan bill the House overwhelmingly passed last month requiring Chinese company ByteDance to sell off...

January 31, 2024 | Mark Dubowitz, Jonathan Schanzer

Biden needs to follow Trump’s lead on Iran

The death of three US service members in Jordan Sunday, along with more than 40 injured, is just the latest – and deadliest – example of Iranian-backed militias targeting American forces in the Middle...

January 26, 2024 | John Hardie |

Ronald Reagan Would Never Betray Ukraine

Neither should Congress.

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.

May 18, 2022 | Eric S. Edelman |

The Strongman Cometh

Why Erdoğan suddenly has a problem with Finland and Sweden joining NATO.

January 19, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

All the president’s enemies

Mitch McConnell is no Vladimir Putin

November 27, 2019 | Clifford D. May

The trouble with religious freedom

Some members of Congress disapprove of USCIRF’s defense of faith communities

November 14, 2019 | Eric S. Edelman, David J. Kramer

Erdoğan’s Undeserving and Underwhelming Visit to DC

Trump’s ongoing bromance with Turkey’s authoritarian leader notwithstanding, Congress and the Administration must act to make clear that the United States isn’t giving Erdoğan a blank check to act in the Middle East.

October 23, 2019 | Mark Dubowitz, David Adesnik

Trump’s Syria pullout, aiding Russia and Turkey, is when America stopped leading the world

Since the end of WWII, every other president understood that U.S. power and wealth can only be sustained by assuming great responsibility.

December 12, 2017 | Richard Goldberg |

Warning to Congress: Bad Iran Legislation Is Worse Than No Iran Legislation

In October, President Donald Trump took an important step toward countering Iran’s ever-expanding list of illicit activities by...

November 16, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

The Tide Turns

First and foremost: Nothing is more pivotal to democratic governance then holding free and fair elections that lead to a peaceful transference of power. Over the past week, Donald Trump, Hillary...

October 4, 2016 | David Weinberg

Americans Can Sue Saudi Arabia Now. So What?

Congress overrode...

August 4, 2016 |

Clifford D. May Appointed to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on August 2, 2016 appointed Clifford D. May to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). “USCIRF...

January 9, 2014 | Mark Dubowitz |

Conservatives Push Congress On Iran

As Congress contemplates passing new Iran sanctions over the objections of t...

October 12, 2011 | R. James Woolsey National Review Online

Zuhdi Jasser’s Counter-Jihad

Co-authored by Seth Leibsohn Shortly after 9/11, many thought it was imperative to teach about and promote the heroes of that deadly day. One such hero...

August 4, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

This War Would Be Hell, TOO

If a top intelligence expert said America was not prepared for war and, indeed, that if we went to war "we would lose," that would worry you, wouldn't it? Start worrying. The expert...

June 14, 2011 | Human Events

FISA Reform Is Vital to Stopping the Next Terror Plot, Not the Last One

Thanks to a testimonial error that National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is now undertaking to clarify, a confusing turn has been taken in the debate over reforming “FISA” --...

June 10, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

A Bug’s Life

Six years after the terrorist atrocities of 9/11/01, 15 years after the first attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, 25 years after the bombing of the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut,...

December 9, 2010 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

Cyber Wakeup Call?

The theft of hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic cables and military reports was an act of espionage and treachery. Their release was an act of sabotage. The U.S. government’s respon...

August 1, 2006 | The New English Review |

Stephen Breyer, the Court’s Necromancer

Authored by Alykhan Velshi Originalism is the house judicial philosophy of conservatism. It maintains that the Constitution has a fixed and knowable meaning, that this meaning i...