PoliticsCommentary
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What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, as delivered Thursday night by Sen…. Read More
PoliticsCommentary
What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, as delivered Thursday night by Sen…. Read More
SecurityCommentary
“The cyberthreat posed by the Chinese government is massive.” That was FBI Director Christopher Wray, speaking at a recent security conference in Munich, warning of… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Then-candidate Joe Biden promised to “restore the soul of America” in 2020, in part by focusing on the country’s standing in the world, fighting for… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Last weekend’s bombing campaign against Iranian proxies in Iraq and Syria enacted by U.S. Central Command in response to the Jan. 28 drone strike that killed three… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The Defense Department’s latest annual “China Military Power Report” gets a lot right. It accurately identifies the scope of China’s global ambitions and many of the structural… Read More
International Analysis
Taiwan’s new president has his work cut out for him, Michael Cunningham says. “He’s not in an easy position,” Cunningham, a research fellow in the… Read More
International Analysis
Israeli leaders such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “look like shells of their former selves,” commentator Morgan Ortagus says, following meetings in Israel earlier this… Read More
SecurityCommentary
These days, it’s not controversial to point out that on the Biden administration’s watch, the world has become far less stable and far more dangerous…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
The leisurely pace of the new year gives birth to reflection. We celebrate the new year, but from time immemorial each new year proves the… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and more than two dozen other Republican lawmakers sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin earlier this month,… Read More
PoliticsNews
House Republicans have advanced measures to prevent noncitizen voting and curb foreign influence in American elections, with some even gaining bipartisan backing. The House Administration… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The House of Representatives’ annual defense bill currently under consideration includes an amendment from Rep. Mike Gallagher that would ban federal agencies from giving taxpayer… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
At a congressional hearing about global religious persecution last week, some House Democrats hijacked the event to fearmonger about a small school of political thought that espouses… Read More
SecurityCommentary
In Washington today, talking tough on China has become all the rage. Policymakers have begun offering eloquent speeches almost daily about the growing threat from… Read More
International Analysis
The attack Hamas launched on Israel Saturday was “a genocidal savage rampage by uncontrollable militants who were simply trying to destroy Jews,” says Victoria Coates,… Read More
SecurityCommentary
With the clock ticking toward a Sept. 30 deadline, the U.S. is racing to preserve strategic national security interests in the Pacific that it could… Read More
SocietyNews
The Biden administration has awarded an anti-terrorism grant worth more than half-a-million dollars to an LGBTQ activist group, which distributes condoms and “sex education” material,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
When contemplating the greatest threats to American national security, an aggressive Communist China or expansionist Russia properly come to mind. However, there’s another threat closer… Read More
SecurityNews
Heavily redacted documents from the National Security Agency tell at least part of the story of a final-month rush by the outgoing Obama administration to… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Democrats in Congress have adopted a simple if cynical strategy to continue growing the national debt: just threaten that any spending cuts will lead to… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Microsoft flagged yet another active threat to U.S. critical infrastructure Wednesday afternoon. The warning lights have been blinking red for some time, and they have… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The war in Ukraine, brutally slogging along some 5,000 miles from the U.S., involves another people but it serves as a reminder to Americans of… Read More
InternationalCommentary
As the global economy faces growing, complex challenges on multiple fronts, the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations needs to be reinvigorated to remain credible… Read More
LawAnalysis
A federal magistrate judge in Worcester, Massachusetts, heard arguments last week on whether the young airman accused of leaking scores of classified documents should be… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Forty years ago Thursday, President Ronald Reagan addressed the American people to announce his plan for a national ballistic missile defense system. This new program,… Read More
SecurityNews
Leaders of the nation’s top intelligence agencies testified at the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence “Worldwide Threats” hearing on Thursday. “It is my privilege… Read More
SecurityNews
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is still using the popular Chinese-owned app TikTok despite a ban in her state for state-owned devices that went into effect… Read More
SecurityCommentary
“Nowadays our countries are much more than friends; they are partners and strategic allies that share values and the same vision to create a peaceful,… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Every few days, it seems the U.S. military shoots down another unexplained object drifting over our airspace—and at least one was a Chinese spy balloon…. Read More
SecurityCommentary
Balloongate, hullaballoon, blimpacolypse. Whatever you call it, America has been transfixed over the past two weeks by the bizarre spectacle of balloons (or other unidentified… Read More