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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“To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history,… Read More
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair strode into Washington last week speaking urgently about the need to have a long-term strategy to defeat Islamist extremism… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
At his national address Sunday night, President Barack Obama lectured Americans at length on the evils of Islamophobia. That is a lofty sentiment, no doubt,… Read More
SecurityCommentary
President Barack Obama clearly meant to convey the seriousness of the situation we currently face as a nation from the terrorist group known as the… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Belgium is a lovely country. Flanders, in the north, has some of the prettiest towns in Europe. Wallonia, to the south, has lush forests and… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
This time there were no petulant attacks on Republicans or cringe-inducing vows that working on climate change would deliver “a powerful rebuke to the terrorists.”… Read More
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In 1990, former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told me in an interview that massive Islamic immigration into Europe kept him awake at night. Between… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Many people think the tradition of assimilating immigrants into society is solely an American thing, something not practiced in “blood and soil” Europe. But one… Read More
EducationCommentary
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is, like all bureaucracies, humorless and unyielding—and it is no less so when it comes to balkanizing or fragmenting Americans…. Read More
SecurityCommentary
China’s drive to influence how Americans think—and, by extension, U.S. policy—takes many forms. Beijing has sought to buy its way into our top universities and biggest… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Is multiculturalism a decent if banal posture that basically boils down to respecting other cultures and getting sloshed on St. Patrick’s Day and Cinco de… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
A politician being cynical is not exactly a “man bites dog” story, as seven years of President Barack Obama has taught us. But when the… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Syria’s raging civil war has transfixed the West’s collective consciousness two summers in a row: last summer with ISIS’s unspeakable barbarity and in 2015 by… Read More
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Just before Secretary of State John Kerry raised the Stars and Stripes in Havana last week as he opened the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Sen…. Read More
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By praising Ethiopia’s repressive regime for being “democratically elected” last week, President Obama was driving home once again something that should be abundantly clear by… Read More
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First Cuba. Now Iran. It can be painful watching President Obama strike deals with some of the world’s most odious regimes. But as the spotlight… Read More
SocietyCommentary
During our last era of high immigration, remembered now as the “Ellis Island” age, our leaders would use the Fourth of July to stump for… Read More
InternationalCommentary
When President Obama confidently asserted “this is what change looks like” during his Cuba embassy announcement last week, he couldn’t possibly have had in mind… Read More
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Sick of what Greece is doing to your 401(k)? Well, there’s a bigger threat looming in the form of a far leftist movement in a… Read More
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The inability of Puerto Rican governments to live within their own means is, of course, the reason why the island finds itself with a $70… Read More
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Watching Europeans grapple with multiculturalism as they attempt to stem the growth of Islamist ideology at home can be instructive. It may even convince U.S…. Read More
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The people of Hong Kong have once again given the world a lesson in democracy and liberty, this time by rejecting a bogus election plan… Read More
EducationCommentary
The growing battle over the College Board’s Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) framework is being described by Politico and others as the usual scrape over… Read More
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Two little-known bills in Congress—one on world press freedom, the other on Hong Kong—seek to reassert the idea that a moral defense of human rights… Read More
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Many Catholics were cheered this week upon hearing that the dictator of Cuba Raul Castro has told the pope he might return to the folds… Read More
SocietyCommentary
This year is shaping up as a milestone for an immigrant group that has often felt little-understood (or liked) by the news media. Cuban Americans… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
When it comes to assimilating immigrants, the Obama administration appears to have drawn a line under the day the president first took office and forgotten… Read More
SocietyCommentary
No part of our culture wars draws more heat than same-sex marriage. It is therefore noteworthy when vituperative tactics get so extreme that some members… Read More
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“It is my strong belief that if we engage, that that offers the greatest prospect for escaping some of the constraints of the past. I… Read More
EducationCommentary
We celebrated Monday that Columbia University had shut down a Chinese student society reputed to front for Beijing, seeing in it a ray of hope… Read More
