North Carolina

December 23, 2025 | Max Lesser, Leah Siskind

X’s Location Feature Exposes a Real Problem, but Does Not Fix It

A new location transparency feature on X is revealing foreign influence on American discourse just as federal agencies designed to deal with such threats are being dismantled. Toward the end...

November 21, 2025 | Natalie Ecanow |

Inside Qatar’s $225 Million Effort to Court US Policymakers and Press

Qatar still thinks money can buy you love, and it has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the United States to prove it. During the first Trump administration, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,...

September 30, 2025 | Charlie Laderman, Nazee Moinian

Freedom for Iran: Learning From U.S. Support for Polish Anti-Communists in the 1980s

May 16, 2025 | Elaine K. Dezenski, Josh Birenbaum

Examining the Threats to America’s Critical Minerals Supply Chain

October 29, 2024 | Max Lesser |

Foreign Malign Election Meddling Persists but Struggles to Gain Traction

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August 23, 2024 | |

Qatari Prime Minister to Visit Iran ‘In the Coming Days’

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani is expected to visit Iran for talks “in the coming days,” Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported on August 22. According...

August 3, 2024 | David Adesnik |

How To Pose as a Reasonable Critic of Israel (With a Little Help From the Media)

Mark Perlmutter is an orthopedic surgeon from North Carolina. He is Jewish but believes that Zionism is “sadism” and “the moral equivalent of Nazism.” Feroze...

July 9, 2024 | |

Citing Hamas Links, Draft Defense Bill Pushes for Review of U.S.-Qatar Relations

U.S. concern over Qatar’s relationship with Hamas is reflected in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s draft of the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), released...

June 25, 2024 | |

Rumors Swirl Over Hamas Move From Qatar to Iraq

Hamas may relocate its political headquarters from Qatar to Iraq, unnamed sources told The National on June 24. The Iran-backed group already opened a political office in Baghdad...

May 8, 2024 | |

Reports Claim U.S. Delaying Munitions to Send Message to Israel

The Biden administration is pausing shipments of offensive weapons to Israel due to its objections to military operations in Rafah, senior U.S. officials told journalists on May...

April 5, 2024 | Alan Goldsmith |

The Urgent Need for UN Reform

The UN’s response to October 7 makes reform more urgent than ever. UN reform used to be a bipartisan priority — it must now be again.

October 23, 2023 | Craig Singleton |

Beijing’s Power Play

Safeguarding U.S. National Security in the Electric Vehicle and Battery Industries

July 12, 2022 | David May, Richard Goldberg

Will CEOs Finally Learn Their Lesson on Boycotting Israel?

Ben & Jerry’s’ Israel boycott melted away last month when its parent company, Unilever, settled a federal lawsuit brought by the company’s Israeli licensee, Avi Zinger. Unilever...

November 15, 2021 | Emily de La Bruyère, Nathan Picarsic

All Over the Map

The Chinese Communist Party’s Subnational Interests in the United States

July 16, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

Jeff Flake as ambassador to Turkey is a chance for my home country to heal

President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake as ambassador to Turkey, a longtime NATO ally that has increasingly strained relations with the United States and other members...

June 25, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

U.S. Targets Turkey-Based Money Laundering Schemes With Links to Senior Turkish Officials

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Monday that it will seek to extradite Sezgin Baran Korkmaz, a Turkish businessman Austrian authorities arrested on June 19 for his alleged role in money laundering...

April 29, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir, Nadine Maenza

Turkey Needs to Change its Policy and Rhetoric Toward Religious Minorities

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan stunned his country’s Christians and Jews by publicly using the slur “gavur” (infidel), a pejorative designation for non-Muslims, to criticize...

February 26, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir, John Lechner

Russia-Turkey Pincer Movement Threatens Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Survival

It is time the West offered robust support to the Istanbul-based Patriarchate – now being squeezed by Ankara and Moscow, both of which see it as a threat to their illiberal projects.

February 11, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

Biden Should Heed Senate’s Call for Tougher Action Against Erdogan

Fifty-four U.S. senators signed a bipartisan letter Tuesday urging President Joe Biden to press the Turkish government to improve its troubling human rights record. The letter calls on the Biden administration...

January 14, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir, Philip Kowalski

Turkey