InternationalNews
In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly today, President Obama presented his case for a global effort to defeat the Islamic State terrorist group,… Read More
InternationalCommentary
WARSAW — Quite suddenly, what Poland does and doesn’t do has become crucial to the United States and the Western alliance. As the next-door neighbor… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Great Britain can breathe a huge sigh of relief. The people of Scotland voted Thursday to remain a part of the United Kingdom. This is… Read More
InternationalCommentary
In an appearance on Fox News on Thursday night, before the results were finalized, The Heritage Foundation’s Nile Gardiner warned about the ill effects Scottish… Read More
InternationalNews
Would Scotland’s future be as part of the United Kingdom or an independent country? >>> Update: It turns out the answer is “No” to independence. By a decisive… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Russian propaganda specialists, political technologists if you will, are flooding the Internet with redrawn maps of Ukraine, shrinking the country to half its actual size…. Read More
InternationalSecurityCommentary
The recently launched al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) attempted to hijack a Pakistani Navy frigate on September 6 in order to use it to… Read More
InternationalAnalysis
President Obama announced today additional efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The Ebola crisis has been ongoing for more than six months. … Read More
InternationalCommentary
The current anti-corruption campaign underway in China is the real deal. What first appeared to be a convenient way to eliminate political opponents when President… Read More
InternationalCommentary
This week’s referendum on Scottish independence has largely flown under the radar here in the United States. The cable news networks have devoted little attention… 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
InternationalNews
After Sen. Ted Cruz was booed off the stage at a gathering of Middle Eastern Christians for making pro-Israel comments, a New York bishop stood… Read More
InternationalNews
In Defense of Christians, an organization that raises awareness of the persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East, held its first-ever… Read More
InternationalSecurityCommentary
As the Obama Administration searches for a strategy to counter the propaganda challenge from radical Islamist groups, reform of U.S. international broadcasting remains in limbo…. Read More
InternationalSecurityCommentary
Last week, I participated in the Future Leaders Summit at the venue of the NATO summit in Wales, dubbed the most important summit in NATO’s… Read More
InternationalSecurityCommentary
Recent reports of foreign fighters from Europe and the U.S. in Syria and Iraq have caused speculation regarding the security of the U.S.’s Visa Waiver… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Castro’s Cuba, America’s sworn enemy in our hemisphere, is exploiting the breach between academia and the nation. An unclassified FBI advisory published Sept. 2 was… Read More
InternationalCommentary
One of the lessons of statecraft is that mistakes tend to compound themselves. Good options disappear and bad ones proliferate. The hole is dug deeper… Read More
InternationalSecurityCommentary
The German Marshall Fund announced the results of its annual Transatlantic Trends survey this week, to coincide with the 2014 NATO summit in Wales. The… Read More
InternationalCommentary
According to a recent news story, President Xi Jinping of China and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India will not attend the upcoming UN climate… Read More
InternationalNews
Dr. Kent Brantly, the American doctor infected with Ebola while working in West Africa, only saw Tim Mosher’s eyes. As part of his mission in… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s video announcement launching an al-Qaeda wing in the Indian Subcontinent is almost certainly part of the organization’s efforts to compete with… Read More
InternationalCommentary
North Korea is a land of “signals” where every action, good or bad, seems some sort of clever harbinger of change. The regime fires a… Read More
InternationalCommentary
This week’s NATO Summit in the United Kingdom couldn’t come at a more important time. Russian aggression is on the rise. NATO’s combat mission in… Read More
The Islamic State terrorist group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, claims to have beheaded a second American journalist, Steven Joel Sotloff. A video of… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan received a boost today when a joint sitting of parliament endorsed his leadership following two weeks of street demonstrations… Read More
InternationalCommentary
China recently conducted its third land-based missile-intercept test. These tests, most likely designed to facilitate “hit to kill” technologies critical for China’s missile defense and anti-satellite programs, are… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Not a day off since Christmas. The president deserved a real vacation — to sit on the newly screened back porch, daydream for an afternoon,… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Upon graduating from medical school, physicians typically take the Hippocratic Oath. Though the oath doesn’t actually contain the phrase “first do no harm” that is… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Boko Haram, the terrorist group operating in north-eastern Nigeria and northern Cameroon that drew headlines this spring after kidnapping over 250 female students, aligned itself… Read More
