South Carolina

June 12, 2023 | John Hardie |

Bipartisan Coalition Urges Biden to Send ATACMS to Ukraine

A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers introduced a resolution on Friday urging the Biden administration to send Ukraine the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS). These missiles would facilitate Kyiv’s...

March 18, 2022 | John Hardie, Matthew Zweig

U.S. Should Seize and Sell Assets of Sanctioned Russian Elites to Aid Ukraine

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation on Tuesday that would enable Washington to seize and sell assets of sanctioned Russian elites and then use the proceeds to support Ukraine. As Washington...

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

All Over the Map

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

June 14, 2021 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Samuel Hodgson

Skinheads, Saints, and (National) Socialists

An Overview of the Transnational White Supremacist Extremist Movement

January 8, 2021 | Bradley Bowman |

U.S.-Israel Operations-Technology Working Group Authorization Provides Opportunity for Biden Administration

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021, which became law last week, includes a provision authorizing the establishment of a U.S.-Israel Operations-Technology Working Group (OTWG)....

December 9, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Amid terror finance allegations, Qatar lobbies for US F-35 fighter jets

"Given Qatar’s track record of financing and helping terrorists and its extraordinary links with Iran, giving it F-35s will undermine the advantage of the US, Israel and their regional allies"

June 25, 2020 | Bradley Bowman |

Congressional Momentum Builds to Establish U.S.-Israel Working Group

The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) released its version of the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Tuesday, and it includes a provision to require the establishment of...

May 14, 2020 | Tzvi Kahn, Allyson Gaines

Obama Officials Support U.S. Unilateral Snapback of Iran Sanctions

When Iran and world powers concluded the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), President Barack Obama and senior officials in his administration repeatedly...

February 26, 2020 | John Hannah |

Democrats Fail the Commander-in-Chief Test

Election 2020 On Tuesday, Democrats held yet another debate. And refreshingly, for once, foreign policy was actually on the agenda. Bernie Sanders came under fire for praising authoritarian leaders, Michael...

January 1, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Nikki Haley, all-American

She’s also a loyal and principled neo-Trumpian, which makes some people angry

December 18, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

Progress on ‘the Jewish question’

Anti-Semites suffer defeats in the U.K. and the U.S.

October 18, 2018 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Here’s how to hit the Saudis — and still serve U.S. interests

Saudi-US ties are at their lowest since the 9/11 attacks. The Desert Kingdom is under fire from US lawmakers for ...

September 17, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Turkish Teenager Who Plotted to Blow Up Gay Club in Frankfurt Arrested

German police in the state of Hesse arrested a teenager earlier this month for plotting an Islamic terror attack on a ...

July 25, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir |

Turkish Court Takes a U-Turn, Releases American Pastor to House Arrest

In response to an appeal by U.S. Pastor Andrew Brunson’s attorney, a Turkish court...

July 19, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir |

Turkey’s Refusal to Release American Pastor Elicits Strong Bipartisan Reaction

A Turkish court refused yesterday to release U.S. Pastor Andrew Brunson, detained for 21 months on...

June 27, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

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...

November 23, 2016 | Clifford D. May

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...

June 15, 2016 | Clifford D. May

Terrorism and economic warfare

Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market bills itself as the “heartbeat of Israeli culinary art.” Dozens of small restaurants and shops offer cheese, wine, bread, fish, olives, pasta, burgers &...

March 3, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

European Affairs: BDS spreading like wildfire in Europe?

To fathom the potency (or lack thereof) of the BDS movement targeting Israel, the diverging and converging paths of its activity in the US and EU can be quite telling. First, the diverge...

February 24, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

How not to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Support policies are guaranteed to make things worse