Oval Office

October 3, 2018 | Clifford D. May

The life, times and foreign policies of Jimmy Carter

One of his wisest advisors attempts to give them a new and improved look.

June 22, 2018 | John Hannah |

Singapore Was John Bolton’s Worst Nightmare

If someone had deliberately designed an international event with the sole objective of giving John Bolton, America’s hawkish White House national security advisor, maximum heartburn, they c...

April 12, 2018 | Richard Goldberg

Trump Admin Pressured to Scold Qatar In Upcoming Oval Office Powwow

Trump administration allies and national security insiders have been voicing concerns about an upcoming meeting between President Trump and the Emir of Qatar, a chief terror financier in the regi...

January 18, 2018 | Mathew Ha, Boris Zilberman

President Trump Calls Out Russia for Helping North Korean Sanctions Evasion

“Russia is not helping us at all with North Korea,” President Trump...

August 16, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

In search of a grand U.S. strategy

Richard Nixon’s rapprochement with China, the end of the Cold War, President Obama’s outreach to “the Muslim world,” the growth of the (largely American-funded) United Nat...

May 18, 2017 | Grant Rumley |

How Can Trump Make Peace Without a Partner in Palestine?

resident Donald Trump visits Israel next week at a supremely awkward moment, amid ...

January 4, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

Trump’s first 100 days

It’s apparent that Donald Trump was — to employ a neologism coined by President George W. Bush 16 years ago...

November 2, 2016 | John Hannah

No Time to Lose: Why the Next President Must Move Quickly to Reassert U.S. Power

You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. That’s true in life, of course. But it’s also an adage that the next president should heed as well. Whoever succeeds Pr...

December 21, 2015 | John Hannah

Can Obama Spur a Reform Within Islam?

President Barack Obama’s Oval Office address in the wake of the San B...

December 11, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn |

More of the Same

On December 6, Barack Obama addressed the nation from the Oval Office for just the third time in his tenure. The president sought to reassure the American people that he has a strategy for defeat...

December 9, 2015 | John Hannah |

Can the Pentagon Still Save the U.S. from Obama’s ISIS Failure?

It's about time. More than three weeks after the massacres in Paris, four days after the worst terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11, and only after he’d completed a foreign jau...

December 9, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Divided We Fall?

“Divide and conquer” describes an age-old military concept: If your enemies are fighting among themselves, they can’t effectively battle you. Phillip II of Macedon, Julius Caesa...

September 8, 2015 |

A Friend in a Friendly Country: Saudi, U.S. Seek Common Ground

Sitting in the White House Oval Office, King Salman ...

May 13, 2015 |

The King of Saudi Arabia Skipped Obama’s Camp David Summit

While Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and deputy crown prince headed to America for a summit w...

March 3, 2015 | |

When Iran Goes Nuclear

Our attention these days with regard to security is understandably riveted on the Islamic State, or ISIS, and its hideous decapitations, rapes and live immolations. We must deal with the...

November 7, 2014 | |

Iran Nuclear Talks and North Korean Flashbacks

With the Iran nuclear talks nearing a Nov. 24 deadline for a deal, U.S. chief negotiator Wendy Sherman is under pressure to bring almost a year of bargaining to fruition. While U.S. ...

November 29, 2013 | John Hannah |

Fear and Loathing in the Kingdom

Pundits and policymakers are missing the big worry about the Obama administration's Iranian nuclear deal: its greatest impact is not ensuring that Iran doesn't get the bomb, but that th...

October 25, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

A Covert Story

There is probably no harder beat in Washington than intelligence.  Journalists rarely have sources inside the Central Intelligence Agency who are not authorized, and when they do, o...

October 7, 2013 | John Hannah |

Settle Scores With Those Who Have Killed Americans

Fairly or not, in the eyes of the world President Barack Obama's handling of the Syrian crisis has laid waste to what little remained of his claim to be a credible commander in chief. How to...

June 21, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Meet the New Mullah

Iranians aren’t wrong to celebrate the presidential victory of Hassan Rouhani. It is a (small) thumb in the eye of the country’s clerical ruler, Ali Khamenei. Leaving aside foreign af...