SecurityCommentary
After taking office, President Obama embarked on one of the riskiest experiments in American history. He decided to see what the world would look like… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Those nasty Republicans are at it again. Dennis Jett, former U.S. ambassador to Mozambique and Peru, writes in The New Republic that GOP senators are… Read More
InternationalNews
Secretary of State John Kerry sought to show the United States’ support of France after the recent terrorist attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo… Read More
SecurityNews
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is concerned about what he calls the Obama administration’s “all carrot and no stick” approach to Iranian nuclear power. During his… Read More
SecurityNews
UPDATE: The Obama administration admitted this afternoon that it erred in not sending a more prominent official to the anti-terrorism march yesterday in Paris. During… Read More
SecurityNews
As part of last month’s deal between Washington and Havana, Cuba agreed to release 53 political prisoners that had been detained for their criticism of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
“What can we do to help?” Americans have been asking this question in one form or another from our very founding. For much of our… Read More
SecurityCommentary
President Obama’s decision to make nice with Cuba’s repressive, anti-American regime creates a great number of losers. Topping the list, of course, are the people… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Occasionally, an important foreign policy/national security story gets underreported. This year it was China’s mounting military might. It’s no one’s fault that it didn’t get… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Kim Jong Il, the former leader of North Korea, once made 11 holes-in-one in a round of golf. On a well-publicized scuba dive, Vladimir Putin,… Read More
SecurityCommentary
It is a measure of the importance attached by Congress to U.S. international broadcasting in the battle space of ideas that the 2014 Omnibus Bill, which passed… Read More
SecurityNews
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has surveyed what he calls “the Obama-Clinton foreign policy,” and he does not like what he sees. Speaking Wednesday at The… Read More
SecurityCommentary
It’s no secret that the Obama administration badly wants a nuclear deal with Iran. And it’s no secret that the Iranians are playing hard to… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Foreign affairs may not have played a big part in the midterm elections, but that doesn’t mean all is well with current foreign policy. A… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Today’s world would be a far different place if the United States had not waged and won—at the cost of thousands of lives and many… Read More
SecurityNews
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., delivered a speech on Thursday outlining his foreign policy philosophy. Paul, widely regarded as a potential 2016 presidential candidate, delivered his… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Here we go again. This week, Palestinian Authority chief negotiator Saeb Erekat has threatened that his government will apply for membership to 522 international organizations… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Today marks the 238th day opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez has spent locked away in a Venezuelan military prison. Arrested for leading peaceful antigovernment demonstrations, Leopoldo… Read More
SecurityCommentary
We have some idea from his two terms as governor of Louisiana what Bobby Jindal, perspective 2016 presidential candidate, would do domestically in the Oval… Read More
SecurityCommentary
A first case of Ebola has hit the United States, resulting in concerns and questions about containing the virus and keeping it out of the… Read More
SecurityCommentary
President Obama insulted many Americans when he raised events in Ferguson, Mo., during his United Nations speech. They chafed at the implied moral equivalence of… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The U.S. military has officially begun airstrikes against terrorist targets inside Syria. It would be nice to think that this represents a different Obama and… Read More
SecurityCommentary
At the 2014 United Nations Climate Summit on Tuesday, President Barack Obama offered a stunning–in fact, deeply disturbing–insight into his views on threats to the… Read More
SecurityCommentary
With the hiring of new Chief Executive Officer Andy Lack, formerly of Bloomberg News, the Broadcasting Board of Governors has pulled an end-run around congressional… Read More
SecurityCommentary
President Barack Obama’s 2014 speech to the United Nations General Assembly today highlighted a number of major crises facing the world today, but it focused… Read More
SecurityAnalysis
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., outlined his views on the role of America in the world, why we need American power, and his position on what… Read More
SecurityNews
Nearly 135,000 people have signed a petition demanding the release of Marine Corps Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi from a Mexico prison, prompting an official response from… Read More
SecurityCommentary
With terrorists running rampant in Iraq and Russian convoys violating Ukrainian borders, the U.S. State Department is fussing over a new unnerving threat: its own… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton repeatedly has sought to blame Voice of America and the other broadcasters for ineffectual U.S. messaging to the Arab… Read More
InternationalNews
At dawn last Friday, a group of hooded men — hidden, but unmistakably officers from Venezuela’s Military Intelligence — burst into the cell of political… Read More
