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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France held a presidential election Sunday under the looming threat of Islamist terrorism, and winnowed the field to two candidates at opposite ends of what… Read More
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There are only 10 days left to comment on one of the most important early challenges in the young Trump administration: proposals to further balkanize… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Foreign aid can help advance U.S. national interests, for example, by promoting our values globally or by demonstrating to the world the goodwill of the… Read More
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During the Cold War, the U.S. spent billions trying to keep Western Europe from falling into Russian hands. Some of our best foreign policy minds,… Read More
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“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” is a proverb that has long, and apparently mistakenly, been attributed to Bedouins. It’s unfair to them,… Read More
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Whoever leaked a Department of Homeland Security document showing that children of immigrants raised in America radicalize at a higher rate than do their parents… Read More
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In the economy of world politics, George Soros has billions at stake, and they extend even to remote places like the Republic of Macedonia. In… Read More
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Macedonia has a population smaller than Queens and is roughly the size of Vermont. It is stuck in the southern Balkans, wedged between a hostile… Read More
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Is National Public Radio’s description of an Obama urban directive as something that merely “links [government] funding to desegregation” fake news? Well, it’s so slanted… Read More
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There seems to be something about Cuba’s military dictators that really fascinates our 44th president. Cuba was the first item President Barack Obama mentioned when he… Read More
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You will hear some people today excuse Fidel Castro’s crimes by begging that he accomplished social goals. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Labour… Read More
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You might hear some voices chiding Cuban exiles for rejoicing publicly over the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, forgetting, willfully or not, their lives… Read More
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While in Greece this week, President Barack Obama called the anxieties about national, cultural, and ethnic identities that impacted this election a “volatile mix.” He… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
As is well known, this election will start, not end, months or years of probing existential debates for conservatives and liberals. But one trope both… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Colin Kaepernick meant to do no such thing, to be sure, but by benching himself during the national anthem because America “oppresses black people,” and… Read More
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AKUMAL, Mexico—As luck would have it, my family and I have been watching that feast of American greatness called the Olympics while in vacation here… Read More
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It’s easy to see why Vladimir Putin has emerged as the lodestar of certain elements of the political right across the West. Russia’s president poses… Read More
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Despite signs everywhere that the Orlando massacre has failed to bring the country together, there seems to be a growing consensus on at least one… Read More
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The Obama administration seems to live in a parallel reality, oblivious to the racial animus that has become the hallmark of late-stage Obama and to… Read More
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Whatever happens in the NBA finals, Steph Curry should be on every box of Wheaties. His example is just the antidote to many of the… Read More
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In the bad old days of the Soviet Union, Stalin, Brezhnev and the rest would literally airbrush out of photographs those who fell out of… Read More
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The White House decision to disinvite a Grammy-award winning jazz legend who is a strong defender of democracy in Cuba was nothing short of contemptible…. Read More
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Carnival Cruises is kind of a pioneer in Cuba, though not in the way it intended. Right now it is Exhibit A of the perils… Read More
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Ordinarily taking a cruise to Cuba would not rate high in my house. Being trapped on a ship packed with “wild and crazy” middle-agers eager… Read More
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Belgians and all Europeans are looking around themselves today with renewed apprehension, having been reminded once more by the attacks in Brussels about their vulnerability… Read More
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Between calls for comity and lamentations over bitter partisanship, Barack Obama does the darnedest, most divisive things. Take his upcoming visit to Cuba, home of… Read More
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The folks running Twitter may be too young to have heard of George Orwell, or perhaps they simply do not care that their new advisory… Read More
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It may be late in the game, but Europeans are finally waking up to how decades of indoctrination into multiculturalism is now imperiling their safety. British… Read More
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We spend a lot of time debating immigration as a society. This is natural, as it is an important policy that always, one way or… Read More
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The political establishment collapsed in Spain in Sunday’s elections, proving once again that this is a trend affecting the entire West, not just the U.S…. Read More
