Reading the Tea Leaves on Iran’s Other “Election”
The newly “re-elected” Assembly of Experts will play a large part in determining Iran’s post-Khamenei leadership.
Orwellian
10 Things to Know About the UN and Hamas
The United Nations (UN) is generating pressure on Israel to stop defending itself against the terrorist organization Hamas following the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust on October 7, 2023....
Insights
How Silicon Valley Engineered China’s Protest Crackdowns
American software and equipment—from companies like Microsoft and Oracle—is deeply embedded throughout China’s police state.
Op-eds
Book Review: The Never Ending War
One ideological goal that has animated foreign policy decision-making over the past three U.S. administrations has been a desire to retreat from “forever wars.” For Israel, such a fantasy-driven ambition...
Op-eds
The Bizarre Positive Biden Spin on Afghanistan
No, the Taliban are not America’s partners
Op-eds
Can Biden Fix the U.N. Human Rights Council?
The administration insists it can succeed where two U.S. presidents already tried and failed.
Op-eds
The UN General Assembly at 75
It’s not the organization it used to be and never was
Op-eds
How China’s Repressive Policies Could Fuel the Jihad
The CCP’s harsh treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang could very well drive more people into the arms of both al-Qaeda and ISIS.
Op-eds
Countering a Corrupt China
How Covid-19 Has Exposed the Regime’s Power Plays
Op-eds
Henry Kissinger’s Illusory World Order
He writes about how coronavirus will change the world without even mentioning China.
Op-eds
The U.N. Human Rights Council strikes again
A motley crew of rights violators seeks to harm Israelis and Palestinians alike
Op-eds
Trump administration puts freedom first
The Trump administration has declared 2020 the year of “Freedom First,” though you would be forgiven for having missed it. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the announcement at an event on human...
Op-eds
Woman of the world
President Ronald Reagan’s 1981 appointment of Jeane Kirkpatrick as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations did not meet with universal approval. Never before had a woman held that position. A...
Op-eds
The Nuclear Deal Keeps America From Confronting Iranian Aggression
In his latest entry in our Atlantic ...
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Pompeo faces challenges from North Korea, Syria and Iran
President Trump’s announcement Tuesday that he has removed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and will nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to head the State Department will likely leave Pompeo...
Op-eds
Deceptive Deja Vu
In France, all right-thinking people know instinctively what the pensée unique is—the socially acceptable view on any subject that ensures a Parisian won’t get axed from the be...
Op-eds
“Political correctness” aims at a new target
In “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” George Orwell’s classic novel about a totalitarian and dystopian future, the ruling Party develops “Newspeak” as way to limit freedom of e...
Op-eds
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Erdogan?
Houston, we have a problem. A serious problem. Slowly, but inexorably, Turkey is headed off a cliff. The signposts ahead are bleak indeed. Despotism. Terrorism. Civil war. Just over the horizon,...
Op-eds
Iran’s Holocaust denial is part of a malevolent strategy
Co-written by Ray Takeyh The Islamic Republic of Iran held another ...
Op-eds
When universities become day care centers
Back in 1993, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New York Democrat, warned against “defining deviancy down.” He was talking specifically about crime, about our getting used to it and not...