Mike is the Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow in the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Read his research.
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Reports that a Jewish candidate at University of California, Los Angeles’ student council was subjected to an anti-Semitic inquisition by fellow students have the media… Read More
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By inviting brave Cuban dissidents as their guests for today’s State of the Union address, friends of Cuban freedom in Congress are casting President Obama… Read More
InternationalCommentary
There are many different shades of shame in President Obama’s decision to recognize Cuba’s unelected military dictatorship, starting of course in the Oval Office, where… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The degeneration of Hong Kong’s political environment continues apace with the firebombing of the home and offices of the pro-democracy newspaper owner Jimmy Lai, well-known… Read More
InternationalCommentary
President Obama’s change of policy on Cuba looks worse with every passing day. Remember the 53 political prisoners that Obama promised would be released? Three… Read More
SecurityCommentary
On Sept. 13, 2001, two days after 9/11, the Parisian daily Le Monde published an editorial titled “Nous sommes tous Américains,” or “We Are All… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Why did President Obama go for broke on Cuba, announcing the United States would normalize relations with that repressive regime? The answer appears in his… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Before hopping on a plane to Lima last Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a key speech on Latin America in which he again… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Cuba’s release of American hostage Alan Gross is to be welcome. Gross has vegetated in a Cuban jail for five years for the crime of… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Cars began transiting through Hong Kong’s Admiralty district overnight for the first time in 75 days, as police finally brought an end to that city’s… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Demands by Hong Kong’s people for the autonomy and freedom that China promised has gotten Beijing’s autocrats into such a tizzy that they’re losing sight… Read More
InternationalCommentary
With the world no longer looking in so intently, police in Hong Kong overnight swept in and cleared one of the largest protest spots in… Read More
SocietyCommentary
At stake in the fight over President Obama’s executive action on immigration could be the future voting patterns of Hispanics—not just of the 5 million or… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Fears that President Obama would attempt to assimilate immigrant communities into a new America that entrenches multiculturalism and acceptance of large government—in other words, an… Read More
InternationalCommentary
President Obama may be poisoning the well with his executive action on immigration, but in at least one area there was welcome bipartisan comity in… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Having received a walloping in the elections, President Obama has promised to double down by tearing the country apart over illegal immigration. “I’ve shown a… Read More
InternationalCommentary
On the day when millions of Americans were exercising their sovereign right to elect their leaders, a blind Cuban dissident who’s never been able to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Should the same federal government that improperly denied conservatives tax-exempt status and sought to investigate newsrooms now be tracking the Twitter hashtag #teaparty? Should it… Read More
InternationalCommentary
September 4, 1839 Start of the First Opium War between China and Great Britain. Although some historians and figures at the time, including our sixth… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Juan Seguín, José Antonio Navarro, Lorenzo de Zavala. Recognize any of those names? If so, you know your Texas history well. If not, you may… Read More
SocietyCommentary
President Obama once again has warned Republicans they will be committing political “suicide” if they do not legalize millions of illegal immigrants. “If they were… Read More
SocietyCommentary
New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña and Milady Baez, the chief for “English-language learners,” are looking to increase dual-language programs, in which students receive… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The violence erupting in Hong Kong amid what had so far been peaceful pro-democracy protests is being carried out by criminal gangs controlled by China,… Read More
InternationalAnalysis
Q: Why are thousands of people demonstrating in Hong Kong now? Because when the former colonial master Britain handed Hong Kong over to China, the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
China’s overreaction to legitimate demands for democracy in Hong Kong, where police are teargasing peaceful protesters asking for universal suffrage, leaves no doubt how the… Read More
EducationCommentary
Nearly all parents (94 percent) surveyed by Pew Research three years ago said they wanted their children to go to university. But they might not… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Far too many conservatives have grown pessimistic about the prospect of Hispanics ever agreeing with their policy prescriptions. Others have erred in the opposite direction,… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The U.S. Congress heard recently from the President that the world is a dangerous place and that we may need to defend our national security… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Scots go to the polls Thursday to decide whether to continue life within the United Kingdom or as an independent country. That is their choice… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In the annals of cynical political maneuvers, President Obama’s decision to postpone executive action on immigration until after the election must win some sort of… Read More
