America’s Critical Infrastructure at Risk
Ransomware attacks conducted by criminals are persistently hitting airports, schools, and 911 dispatch centers, while foreign adversaries probe our critical infrastructure every day. Yet, two programs...
Rand Paul
U.S. Cybersecurity at Risk Without Congressional Action
Congress has less than 90 days to avert a cybersecurity nightmare. At the end of September, a keystone law enabling information sharing between private companies and government and among private companies...
Policy Briefs
U.S. Approves Major Arms Sale to Israel
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Flash Briefs
Biden Blocks Arms to Israel While Promising Future Support
The Biden administration notified Congress on May 14 of a future $1 billion arms package for Israel. That package reportedly includes “$700 million in tank ammunition, $500 million...
Flash Briefs
White House Denies Withholding Intelligence on Hamas From Israel
The White House on May 13 denied reports that it is withholding sensitive intelligence from Israel that could help the Jewish state prosecute its war against Hamas. Citing four unnamed...
Flash Briefs
Biden Faces Bipartisan Criticism for Withholding Key Arms from Israel
Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill expressed disapproval throughout the week regarding President Joe Biden’s decision to withhold key munitions from Israel. Biden admitted...
Flash Briefs
U.S. Senate votes 95-1 to add Finland and Sweden to NATO alliance
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...
Policy Briefs
How Congress Can Keep Biden From Caving to Iran’s Demands
The administration has said it will not remove the IRGC’s terrorist designation, but it is likely looking for ways to ease the burden on Iran.
Op-eds
New US sanctions on Syria mean no leniency for business with Assad
The toughest sanctions yet on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are set to take effect in just two weeks. No firm that wants to stay off the US Treasury’s blacklist should plan on doing...
Op-eds
The Islamic Revolution vs. Donald Trump
Iran and Ayatollah Khamenei are more influential today than at any time since 1979.
Op-eds
How not to end endless wars
Retreating and abandoning allies may not be the optimum strategy.
Op-eds
Germany’s Merkel reneges on NATO defense pledge, causing friction with U.S.
In 2014, Merkel’s government committed her country's defense budget at a NATO conference in Wales to increase its expenditure to 2% by 2024. Her broken promise has created intense friction.
Op-eds
The unstoppable envoy
Richard Grenell has made a career of confounding expectations. That hasn’t changed since becoming U.S. ambassador to Germany last year. On...
Op-eds
Congressional Push for Syria Sanctions Continues
Legislation imposing sanctions on Syria’s Assad regime has once again stalled in the Sen...
Policy Briefs
Rand Paul Slams Saudi Arabia
Senator Rand Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky, rode into the Senate chamber in 2010 on a Tea Party movement that took U.S. pol...
Op-eds
The Flexible-Fuel Solution
Co-authored by Anne Korin Negotiators in Geneva appear to be sleepwalking into a Sunni–Shia nuclear arms race, so a bad neighborhood — as former Israeli prime...
Op-eds
The Sorrows of Young Snowden
If the attacks of 9/11 taught us anything, it’s that we must connect the dots. But before we can connect the dots, we must collect the dots. Those railing against...
Op-eds
The Jihad According to Rand Paul
Last month, at the Values Voter Summit, a gathering of conservative activists from around the country, Senator Rand Paul gave a speech on...
Op-eds
Way Down in Egypt’s Land
President Obama wants to keep aid to Egypt’s new military rulers flowing. So does Republican former ambassador John Bolton. Democratic (and Muslim) congressman Keith Ellison wants to cut ai...
Op-eds
Egypt Against Itself
A society on the edge of chaos.