How Mao is Outsmarting Madison in American K-12 Classrooms
In a legislative blitz last week, the House of Representatives passed 25 bills to counter Beijing’s growing influence and protect Americans from threats associated with everything...
Oregon
Composite Violent Extremism: A Radicalization Pattern Changing the Face of Terrorism
Before opening fire in a Bend, Oregon, grocery store in August 2022, Ethan Miller expressed his hatred toward “EVERYONE & EVERYTHING.” Bearing this out, his rambling online posts displayed racial...
Op-eds
Time to integrate State Partnership Program in Pentagon planning
As currently used, the program is a missed opportunity, especially when America needs to be strengthening its relationships abroad.
Op-eds
Renewable Isn’t Always Green
The Biden Administration and the European Union have launched unprecedented and far-reaching policies to promote the use of renewable energy and low carbon emitting energy. While commonly people use the...
Op-eds
The next pandemic may be cyber — How Biden administration can stop it
Excerpt The next seismic event we face as a country may be a cyber pandemic. Funded by a foreign government, led by a terror organization, or carried out by a lone wolf with a laptop and a bit of skill,...
Op-eds
Economic Coercion, with a Chinese Twist
During the campaign and through the early days of the Trump administration, policymakers and pundits have zeroed in on the U.S. economic relationship with China, in parti...
Op-eds
These not-so-united states
The People’s Democratic Republic of Oregon. That has a kind of ring to it, don’t you think? The reason this phrase has crystalized in my mind: Just after it was confirmed that Donald...
Op-eds
The Return of Missile Defense
Thirty years ago, President Reagan realized that MAD was not the best we could do. Do Obama and Hagel now agree?
Op-eds
Shabaab Threatens Britain Over Extradition of Abu Hamza al Masri
Co-authored by Lisa Lundquist Yesterday the Somali terror group Shabaab threatened to attack Britain for extraditing radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al Masri, who arrived in the...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda’s Resurgence
FOUR YEARS AGO, HIS WORDS WOULD have represented an almost unquestioned consensus view. In late January, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Dell Dailey, described al Qaeda&...
Op-eds
Has Anyone Told Ambassador Rice There’s a Crisis In Libya?
When President Obama made Susan Rice his ambassador to the United Nations, in 2009, he thought the job was so vital that he gave her cabinet rank. Now, here we are, with the Arab world in tumult,...
Op-eds
Never Mind Egypt. What Would We Do Without the UN?
History is being made with Egypt’s Lotus Revolution, as President Obama reminded us on Friday, intoning: “This is one of those moments. This is one of those times.” Big things a...
Op-eds
The Dangerous Myth of ‘Homegrown’ Terrorists
If U.S. officials and the media can be believed, America faces an epidemic of “homegrown” terrorism. Yet from U.S. Army shooter Nidal Hasan to would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shah...
Op-eds
The Homegrown Terror Threat
Homegrown terrorism has been much discussed on cable news channels and the op-ed pages of major newspapers in recent months. The attention is unsurprising. After all, 2009 saw more homegrown terr...
Op-eds
Guinea: In Search of a Soft Landing
Guinea cannot seem to catch a break. In 1958, it was the only French colony to opt for an immediate break with France rather than continued association with Paris leading to gradual inde...
Op-eds
Guinea: At the Edge of the Precipice
By Dr. Walid Phares When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara seized power the day before Christmas Eve last year following the death of longtime ruler General Lansana Conté, I wa...
Op-eds
Guinea Avoids the Deluge — At Least for Now
More than two years ago, I devoted a column in this series to the relatively obscure West African nation of Guinea which holds more than half of the world's reserves of bauxite (bauxite ore...
Op-eds
My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir
My Year Inside Radical Islam is a memoir of first a spiritual and then a political seduction. Raised in liberal Ashland, Oregon, by parents who were Jewish by birth but dismissive of strict dogma...
Op-eds
Extradition Delayed Is Justice Denied
He arrived in Europe with great fanfare: an inspiring young leader from a foreign land who spoke with passion about change and social justice. And Europe answered the...
Op-eds
Getting FISA Wrong . . . Again
A federal court in California has dismissed a civil lawsuit that alleged surveillance violations against a Muslim charity the government has formally designated as supporter of al-Qaeda and other...