InternationalCommentary
The small North African country of Tunisia suffered another major terror attack, the third this year. The attack should remind the world that Tunisia faces… Read More
InternationalCommentary
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
InternationalNews
KATHMANDU, Nepal—Protesters here vented their frustration with India’s ongoing trade blockade of Nepal, which has created a nationwide fuel and medicine shortage and slowed the country’s… Read More
InternationalNews
As the United States debates how to properly vet 10,000 Syrian refugees expected to resettle here, employees with Samaritan’s Purse are stationed on the frontlines… Read More
InternationalCommentary
In Tunisia, the one nation progressing in the struggle to build a democracy from the Arab Spring revolutions, the governing party of President Beji Caid Essebsi… Read More
InternationalCommentary
2015 has not been kind to Kazakhstan’s economy (the largest in Central Asia). Although it has the highest levels of economic freedom in the region,… Read More
InternationalCommentary
A humanitarian crisis is developing in Central America along the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Earlier this week, the Nicaraguan military began refusing to… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Australians have always viewed America’s litigious culture with suspicion. Our “no worries mate” approach to life means we tend not to rush off to court… Read More
InternationalCommentary
On Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry visited French President Francois Hollande to show American support to the French government. Unfortunately Kerry then proceeded to… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Japan is in recession, again. A year ago, I wrote about Japan facing back-to-back decline in its quarterly gross domestic product (GDP). Despite the Japanese… Read More
InternationalNews
Feeling pressure to respond to President Barack Obama’s ongoing plan to resettle Syrian refugees to the United States, House and Senate Republican lawmakers on Tuesday… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Russia’s intelligence services have finally admitted what most have already suspected: that a bomb brought down the Russian commercial airliner over the Sinai Peninsula last… Read More
InternationalCommentary
On Nov. 12, President Barack Obama said of ISIS: “What is true is that from the start, our goal has been first to contain, and… Read More
InternationalNews
Unity. It’s what fueled the violent terrorists who killed more than 132 people and injured 350 more in Paris Friday. But it’s also fueling citizens… Read More
InternationalCommentary
In light of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, which resulted in at least 139 dead and another 350 wounded, there has been significant discussion… Read More
InternationalPoliticsSecurityCommentary
Helmut Schmidt—chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 and staunch U.S. ally—is dead. As chancellor, Schmidt saw his country through the fight against the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Tehran seems determined to demonstrate that the nuclear agreement struck by the Obama administration will not alter the nature of the Iranian regime one whit…. Read More
InternationalCommentary
The effects of 21st-century socialism in Venezuela are horrifying. According to the International Monetary Fund, Venezuela’s economy will shrink by at least 10 percent in… Read More
InternationalCommentary
With the decision to conduct a Freedom of Navigation operation (FONOP) in the waters around China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea, U.S.-Chinese relations… Read More
InternationalCommentary
There’s a lot of confusion about the announcement by the White House late last week about the upcoming deployment of U.S. special operations forces to… Read More
InternationalNews
AMMAN, JORDAN—In the small town of Marka, Jordan, about 20 minutes from downtown Amman, hundreds of Christian refugees and their families live under the steadfast… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Did it escape your attention that last month was the 70th birthday of the United Nations? Did you miss the opportunity to celebrate by following… Read More
InternationalCommentary
China’s recent decision to abandon the one-child policy in favor of a two-child policy, while welcome, is neither a fundamental policy shift nor a long-term… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Last week, two press freedom groups—Reporters Without Borders and the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory—issued a press release detailing the plight of independent media in the northern… Read More
InternationalCommentary
KATHMANDU, Nepal—About two months before a mortar killed him, 19-year-old Ukrainian soldier Daniel Kasyanenko smoked a cigarette with me in a trench in eastern Ukraine…. Read More
InternationalCommentary
Last month during a speech in Madrid, the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, boasted of popular support for EU integration. The boast came… Read More
InternationalCommentary
A new lot of emails released by the State Department on Halloween were so newsworthy that not even the holiday could drown it out. It… Read More
InternationalCommentary
In U.S. Arctic policy, President Barack Obama has focused on climate change. He also officially changed the name of Mt. McKinley to Denali, a decision… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Last June, Turkey held a general election, but no single party won enough seats within the legislature to form a single ruling party. After a few… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The number of Chinese billionaires has increased by almost 70 percent in the past year, according to figures in the 2015 “Hurun Rich List,” an… Read More
