James Jay Carafano is a defense and national security expert at The Heritage Foundation, where he currently is special counselor to the president, the E.W. Richardson fellow for international engagement, and chairman of the Combating Antisemitism Task Force. Read his research.
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Bad Bunny isn’t all that bad. After all, the rapper and singer’s concert residency in Puerto Rico added over $200 million to the economy. That said, the announcement that he would… Read More
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If you want to understand why there’s hope for a rebirth in America—restoring it to once again cherish faith, family, and country—remember Bill Middendorf, who… Read More
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Not every new movie marks another battle in the current culture wars. But “One Battle After Another” certainly should. Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s film has… Read More
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Culture wars in America leave less casualties than real wars, but still, they don’t make much room for neutrals. Even Americans that would rather go… Read More
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The new “Superman” movie is off to a promising start at the box office, and for conservative culture watchers, who scan Hollywood like a medical… Read More
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Someday you could be immortalized in a museum display case—and that’s not a good thing. “All the great civilizations of the past can only be… Read More
InternationalAnalysis
After the disastrous foreign affairs failures of the Biden administration, many Americans were left wondering how a Trump administration could possibly correct course. Well, it’s finally Trump time, so here’s what one should… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Al-Qaeda first attacked the World Trade Center in 1993 with a car bomb in the underground garage. Americans heard about the attack on the evening news… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni delivered a Christmas present earlier this month to a free and prosperous Europe when she dumped Italy’s deal with China on its Belt and Road… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Strategic leadership is about action—and rhetoric. When they match, history is made. When they don’t, it’s just a speech that’s soon to be forgotten. No… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Tehran has an endgame in sight: Use the Israel-Hamas war to establish Iran as a declared nuclear weapon state. The likelihood that Hamas orchestrated the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In the fight between Elon Musk and the Anti-Defamation League, Americans are the biggest losers. Antisemitism and woke politics are both cancers eating away at… Read More
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Taylor Swift may be the hottest ticket this summer, but her listeners don’t share her country roots. That space has been captured by a series… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Policymakers in Washington and Seoul rightly suspect that by the 70th anniversary of Korean-American relations, the agenda for the two nations is way more than… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Media reports on the aftermath of a massive earthquake in Turkey (which now has the official name of Türkiye) look and sound as devastating as that… Read More
SecurityCommentary
It might not have been a Sputnik moment, but Americans were unsettled to wake up to the news that a Chinese surveillance balloon was sailing overhead, violating U.S…. Read More
SecurityCommentary
In the wake of China admitting today that a large surveillance balloon flying over the U.S. was its own, critical questions arise. What is China… Read More
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China is being racked by popular protests on a scale not seen since Tiananmen Square in 1989. But how much have the demonstrations made the regime rethink its autocratic… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
This time of year, at Turtle Bay in New York, the leaders of the world flock to the United Nations like homing pigeons for the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Rather than talking about the possible outcome and fallout of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, let’s roll up our sleeves and look at… Read More
EnergyCommentary
When it comes to energy policy, President Joe Biden has become a master of doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons. His policies on solar… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Last year, Congress considered a very bad and ill-considered idea. With no debate and no real scrutiny, there was an effort to add to the… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Constitutionalists, free-speech lovers, and sane people alike cheered upon hearing the announcements that the Department of Homeland Security was disbanding its nascent Disinformation Governance Board… Read More
SocietyCommentary
If we listen to strong, powerful, confident, convincing conservative voices in America today, thank Midge Decter. While President Jimmy Carter decried the state of the… Read More
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Last week, we lost a respected leader in the homeland security community and friend of The Heritage Foundation. Edmund “Kip” Hawley, former administrator of the… Read More
SecurityCommentary
President Joe Biden’s Euro tour this past week played like many a horror movie, where things go from “eerily off” to full-blown crisis in a… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Russian President Vladimir Putin could never rest easy without the Russian flag flying over Kyiv. Never doubt for a second that Chinese President Xi Jinping feels… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is underway. Now the question is: How bad will it get? Russian President Vladimir Putin has opted for an all-out… Read More
SecurityCommentary
President Joe Biden is committing the biggest scofflaw since the Chicago cops partnered with Al Capone during Prohibition. Paying lip service to a judicial order… Read More
InternationalCommentary
One dangerous response to the Ukraine crisis is that the U.S. should make nice with the Russians so they can either help, or at least… Read More
