Stalinism

March 7, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

Targeting Iran’s agents of influence

The British government unveiled an important new measure to combat influence originating from Tehran. Now it has to get to work enforcing it.The British government unveiled an important new measure to combat influence originating from Tehran. Now it has to get to work enforcing it.

June 7, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

The Stalinist approach to peacemaking

It’s simple, homicidal logic: No Israel, no problem

April 28, 2023 | David Adesnik |

Guess the new Human Rights Watch director’s first target. Yup: Israel

For the first time in 30 years, Human Rights Watch has a new executive director, Tirana Hassan. Within days of taking office, she turned her fire on Israel.  “This is a government that’s...

December 7, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Xi’s struggle

China’s Communist ruler isn’t just playing games

November 30, 2022 | Matt Pottinger, Matthew Johnson, David Feith

Xi Jinping in His Own Words

What China’s Leader Wants—and How to Stop Him From Getting It

November 24, 2021 | Clifford D. May

Biden’s left banker

A nominee with a colorful story and ‘radical’ beliefs

June 23, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Swiss miss

Biden blew a chance for a win in his meeting with Putin

January 14, 2021 | David Maxwell, Mathew Ha

North Korea

February 19, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Are We Headed Toward an Ignoble End in Afghanistan?

The question is less about when to leave and more about how to do so without further emboldening the Taliban.

October 24, 2018 | Clifford D. May

Killing Khashoggi

It must bring consequences – not including a break in U.S.-Saudi relations

May 16, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

Trump’s art of the nuclear deals

Donald Trump inherited two deadly serious national security crises, one in the Middle East, one in the Far East.  Look closely and you’ll see that these crises are inseverable....

December 19, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

PFLP Celebrates Jubilee Year in Berlin

Supporters and a senior official of the internationally designated terrorist organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine held a celebration in Berlin of 50 years since the grou...

November 15, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

Came the revolution

My political orientation has evolved slowly over decades. With one exception: I became anti-Soviet and anti-Communist overnight. More quickly than that, actually. The year was 1972. I wa...

July 19, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

The proliferation problem from hell

On the surface, Iran and North Korea could hardly be...

June 20, 2017 | Anthony Ruggiero |

Pyongyang’s Murder of U.S. Student Shows Negotiating is Pointless

The death of American student Otto Warmbier was nothing less than a callous murder at the hands of North Korea’s Stalinist dictatorship. This crime should serve as a potent reminder that th...

October 19, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The German Left’s Undeclared War on Israel

The historian Jeffrey Herf's profound new book shows that German-animated left-wing terrorism targeting Israel was not a tactic but rather part of a long-war strategy to destroy the Jewish s...

July 15, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

The Chilcot Report

The Chilcot report on the Iraq war ought to elicit two emotions: sympathy and pity for former British prime minister Tony Blair. As was evident by late 2002, when Europeans saw the fri...

December 2, 2015 | |

Britain’s Corbyn Is No Laughing Matter

"Few people outside Britain have ever heard of Jeremy Corbyn," the British journalist Nick Cohen ...

July 6, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal

Celebrating a Conservative Fourth of July

I am in Berlin, Germany. Independence Day carries the weight of America’s role in defeating Stalinism and Soviet Communism in continental Europe. With the disturbing rise of mainstr...

June 25, 2015 | Aykan Erdemir |

Europe Needs Greece

The Greek debt crisis has become so complicated that we now have digests and timelines to guide us through the saga. In this spirit, the Bertelsmann Foundation recently released an infographic de...