The U.S. Senate voted 95-1 on Wednesday to add Finland and Sweden to the NATO alliance. The overwhelming vote is a major rebuke of Russian President Vladimir Putin and a resounding expression of American...
A strategy to contain him should have been implemented years ago
Mitch McConnell is no Vladimir Putin
Not long ago, I was talking to a Fatah official about Palestinian aspirations, especially his party’s sharp emotions about Hamas, the Palestinian fundamentalist movement that rules Gaza and...
What is it about Israel in general and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular that leads to so much careless reporting and tendentious commentary? Start with The New York Times,...
By all accounts, the attack was planned with care and executed with precision. At two notorious Iraqi prisons, Abu Ghraib and Taji, al-Qaeda combatants last week used mo...
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...
Will Putin’s ban on adoptions finally help U.S. officials grasp the nature of Russia’s political leadership?
The latest round in an endless cycle of violence between Israel and Gaza has culminated in a surprising win for the US- Israel relationship: an apparent renewal of vows between President Obama an...
The Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot is reporting that the Obama administration has been conducting...
The rest of the world adores Obama, but it shouldn't matter when Americans go to the polls
When Benjamin Netanyahu stood up at the United Nations General Assembly last September with a cartoonish drawing of a bomb designed to show how close Iran was getting nuclear weapons, close obser...
Prominent Jews like the Harvard lawyer have spent years criticizing Obama. So, why are they endorsing him?
President Obama's efforts to isolate Iran’s rogue regime is drawing a cool response from some key European lawmakers, who may be putting trade over principle. A group of Germa...
A suicide bomber driving an SUV full of explosives crashed into a Catholic church in a Christian minority enclave of Nigeria during Mass yesterday, killing te...
Why focus on the realities of terror-sponsoring rogue regimes, when you can mock Gov. Mitt Romney instead? After Monday night’s Obama-Romney foreign policy debate, the Washington Post&r...
We must do more to oust Assad
This was less a debate about foreign policy than a contest between alternate versions of reality. President Obama described a world in which America...
Governor Romney demonstrated a laser-like focus on why the Islamic Republic remains America’s “greatest national-security threat.” He reminded Americans that Obama betr...
Although conventional wisdom among pundits holds that President Barack Obama enjoys significant foreign policy advantages over challenger Mitt Romney, a recent Pew Research Center poll suggests t...