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The recent death of Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s president, in a helicopter crash, put me in mind of a comment misattributed to Mark Twain: “I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure” (It’s actually a paraphrase of a com

No matter what one may think of Donald Trump’s personality and antics, it is undeniable that many of his policies were successful. One of the pillars of former President Trump’s foreign policy was to prioritize economic growth, especially by leveraging th

US foreign policy is in shambles, characterized by drift and incoherence. It is, at best, a-strategic and, at worst, non-strategic, lacking any concept of how to apply limited resources to obtain our foreign policy goals because this administration appear

It has now been two years since Russia invaded Ukraine. Once dominating foreign policy news, the conflict has slipped off the front page as other crises—especially the conflict between Israel and Hamas and the Southern US border emergency—have led the new

Just over a century ago, Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Russian Communist Party who orchestrated the October Revolution, died. We should not lament his death, for his revolution unleashed a century of crimes against humanity.

What should American citizens make of the recent disappearance of Secretary of Defense (SecDef) Lloyd Austin for three days earlier this month? Austin was admitted to intensive care at Walter Reed on January 1,

Earlier this month, some 12,000 illegal migrants crossed the US southern border in one day, setting a new record. According to an October report of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered 269,735 illegal i

The legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died at the age of 100 this past week, will be debated for a very long time. But there is no question that his contributions to US foreign policy, both as a practitioner and scholar, were outsized. He was a practitioner

Israel is under attack for defending itself. On 7 October, the terrorist organization Hamas launched an attack from Gaza that targeted Israeli civilians, ultimately killing some 1400 and wounding thousands more. It massacred entire families, sparing neith

The disgraceful reaction of too many people to the recent slaughter of some 1,400 Jews by Hamas in southern Israel confirms the observation of Eric Hoffer in a 1968 essay for the Los Angeles Times: “the Jews are alone in the world.” This reaction, especia