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Since launching its military operation against Iran last Friday, Israel has dealt a devastating blow to the country’s nuclear program,... Read More

It’s difficult to overstate the significance of Israel’s ongoing strikes against Iran: In just a few days, Israel has... Read More

In May 2025, U.S. Congressmen Joe Wilson (R-SC) and Greg Steube (R-FL) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressing... Read More

Less than a week before Israel launched its attack on Iran, Tucker Carlson, and other cheerleaders for the Islamic... Read More

Allies couldn’t get the U.S. president on board with stronger measures against Russia — but at least they “live to fight... Read More

Peaceful pro-lifers, grandmothers, priests—even the pregnant—are being arrested for “offending” progressive... Read More

The Taliban’s quest for legitimacy is gaining momentum after Pakistan upgraded diplomatic ties last month, promoting its... Read More

On June 12, Israel unleashed a series of strikes that damaged Iranian nuclear facilities and missile sites, destroyed gas depots, and,... Read More

President Trump wants to be a transformative leader. He can’t be if he dives into a war with Iran.   Read More

Vice President J.D. Vance tried to thread the needle.   Read More

Israel’s attack on Iran opens the next phase of the Great Middle Eastern War that began on Oct. 7, 2023. Over the past 20... Read More

When John Kerry was secretary of state under Barack Obama, he was widely mocked for saying a proposed military strike on Syria... Read More

When a society can no longer distinguish between good and evil, between victim and perpetrator, it gives up.   Read More

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps the most likely political institution to take control if the clerical elite were removed   Read More

Iran is suffering blow after blow, and Russia, its most powerful supporter, is apparently not prepared to do much of anything about it.   Read More

As another carrier strike group steams to the Middle East and F-35 squadrons position themselves in the region with... Read More

Fighting on multiple fronts simultaneously is a mistake, as Europe well knows. Napoleon lost his throne because his armies were spread thin... Read More

In the four decades before 2010, the United States maintained a policy of engagement with China, notwithstanding such fluctuations as the... Read More

For many years, liberals refused to talk about the grooming gangs scandal. The systematic sexual abuse and rape of hundreds, possibly... Read More

The ongoing “Operation Rising Lion,” where Israel’s largely US-made air force is systematically dismantling Iran’s... Read More

On April 13, 2025, Cody Allen Balmer set fire to the residence of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shaprio, while he and his family slept upstairs.... Read More

On June 17, the International Religious Freedom Summit was held in Nairobi, Kenya. Recently, 200 Christian IDPs (Internally... Read More

Over the past decade, many electronics firms have talked about diversifying their supply chains. An analysis of Apple—America’s... Read More

The endgame of the current Israel-Iran conflict presents two distinct goals: preventing a nuclear Iran and achieving regime change in Tehran. Read More

Despite stunning early successes in Israel’s unprecedented strikes on Iran, a weekend of intensive bombardment and retaliation is... Read More

Iran likely expected a lot more support by this point. However, even its friends in places like Venezuela and Russia don’t seem to be... Read More

Israel’s assault on Iran represents a double helping of good news for the Kremlin.  Read More

In 2002, the Bush administration was met with scant resistance from the mainstream media or wider establishment as it drummed up the case for... Read More

The main reason Israel’s massive attack on Iranian leadership, nuclear facilities, and other targets came as a surprise is that no one... Read More

In 2003, eight years prior to making Aliyah from the US, I joined a legal group touring Israel. Upon stopping at Har Ben Tal, near the Syrian... Read More

Since the turn of the century, the United States has sought to help India rise as a great power. During George W. Bush’s presidency,... Read More

At the White House in March, President Trump asked NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte whether his current position is tougher than his former... Read More

Munich in winter is mildly depressing, unlike the traditionally sunny postcards replete with lagerbier and dirndl. The airport... Read More

In a Foreign Affairs op-ed, Ely Ratner outlines a case for a Pacific Defense Pact. Although applying collective defense to Asia is... Read More

From stockpiling trauma kits for mass casualties to kitting out medics with body armor, wartime health planning is no longer hypothetical on... Read More

The US intelligence apparatus needs new legal authorities, operational models, and institutions built for hybrid warfare.   Read More

The first ironclad battle between the Union and the Confederacy resulted in the instant obsolescence of the wooden “ship of... Read More

Just after midnight on June 13, 2025, an Israeli operation codenamed Rising Lion unfolded in two distinct but mutually reinforcing... Read More

Iran bet on bluff and delay—but lost its proxies, deterrence, and leverage, leaving a regime rich in threats but bankrupt in... Read More

President Trump can still tell Israel that the United States won’t give it another dime until it stops its reckless adventurism.   Read More

The US president left the G7 early to solve the Middle East crisis. Are you less anxious now? No, me neither Read More

When gray-haired white liberals take to America’s streets for “No Kings” protests, the only danger they’re... Read More

In recent days, an extraordinary scene has unfolded in Cuba: university students have taken to the streets in protest. The apparent... Read More

War drums are beating along both the Potomac and the Yangtze. The U.S. Navy is puffing the dragon every way it can, warning that the Chinese... Read More

On Friday, as Iran and Israel traded both blows and words in a conflagration that marks a new and even more dangerous era in the Middle East,... Read More