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For the past 20 years, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius has been the mainstream media’s leading apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency,...
We know that Donald Trump is not fit to be sitting in the White House. He is a dangerously disordered president, and we have observed enough...
ast week, the Washington Post audaciously posted a lead editorial that warned about “A threat to First Amendment Rights.” For the past six...
On March 3, only three days after the mugging of Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, two foreign policy...
“It was a sickening spectacle: the man who tried to upend democracy bullying the man who is fighting for democracy. – Maureen Dowd, “Trump is...
It is difficult to keep up with Donald Trump’s challenges to U.S. democracy, and it is similarly difficult to keep up with the Washington Post’s...
In an oped in the Washington Post this week, former secretary of the navy Richard Danzig recommended deploying Elon Musk and his team from the...
All presidents bring their own characteristics and governing styles to the White House. Lyndon Johnson, who assumed the presidency in the most awful...
Donald Trump has occupied the White House for only three weeks, and the term “crazy town,” which former chief of staff John Kelley applied to...
COUP D’ETAT: A sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the alteration of an existing government by a small group. During last...
FASCISM: Fascism is a populist political philosophy that exalts the nation and often race above the individual. It is associated with a...
Trump broke the law last Friday night when he summarily fired 18 inspectors general and ignored the 1978 law that requires giving 30 days notice to...
Friedman’s dreamscape for the Middle East makes no sense on any level. Even former secretary of state Antony Blinken eventually recognized that...
Wiles is not only unable or unwilling to tell the president “No,” but there are too many influential voices around Trump who appear successful in...
Our concern with the politics, policies, and propaganda of Donald Trump underplays the central question of his presidency: Is Donald Trump...
Jeff Bezos blocked an editorial in the Washington Post last year that endorsed Kamala Harris’s run for the presidency, and his senior editors...
A key measure of any U.S. president’s success is the ability or good fortune to leave his successor with a better international situation than the...
One of the reasons I’m having difficulty “enjoying the holidays” is the editorial writing of Bret Stephens. His columns defending Israel’s brutal...
The mainstream media ignored the passing of a beloved former colleague of mine, Ambassador Raymond Garthoff, whose career spanned the most...
Biden and his national security team believe they can “contain” China; they can’t. The U.S.-China relationship is important in all policy areas:...
For the past several decades, the United States and Israel have tried to isolate Syria in the Middle East. Only U.S. Secretary of State Henry...
The mainstream media is largely ignoring President Joe Biden’s moral failure regarding Israel’s genocidal bombardment of Gaza, but piling on...
“The International Court is putting the elected leaders of a democratic country with its own independent judiciary in the same category as...
The New York Times’ leading columnist, Thomas Friedman, has devised an answer to “How Trump Could Earn an Unexpected Place in History.” Friedman...
The results are in and the clear winner of the 2024 U.S. presidential election is undeniably Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu...
“The advantage I have now is I know everybody. I know people. I know the good, the bad, the stupid, the smart.” – Donald Trump, Time...
For the past year, the Washington Post’s senior diplomatic columnist, David Ignatius, has been loyal to the U.S. and Israeli national security...
In its description of Israel’s “strategic position,” the Times has forgotten that prior to October 7, Israel’s borders were quiet, particularly the...
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is getting his share of criticism for stopping the paper’s presidential endorsement of Vice President Kamala...
Both Friedman and Stephens argue that it is up to the Palestinians to take the lead in building a more politically moderate Middle East and to...
Fourteen years after British Prime Minister David Cameron charged the Israels with creating a “big outdoor prison” in Gaza, the New York Times...
Several days after the Washington Post bogusly declared that Israel has recovered the “military primacy” that it lost a year ago, the New York...
The mainstream media has been largely critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s dangerous use of military power, and largely supportive of...
There has been a deplorable consistency in the remarks and efforts of Robert M. Gates over the past four decades. In the 1980s, Gates was a major...
No Democratic administration has been willing to challenge the excesses of Israeli policy, and the Biden administration is no exception. President...
With the exception of Donald Trump, no president in my lifetime had a more shallow knowledge of history and foreign policy than Ronald Reagan. ...
President Biden’s neglect of arms control and disarmament means that the next president will inherit a nuclear landscape that is more threatening...
Last month, I reported on the Biden administration’s new nuclear doctrine to prepare the United States for a coordinated nuclear challenge from...
The horrors of the Second World War sparked the creation of international organizations and international laws to ensure that such horrors would...
The Biden administration’s decision to continue funding the notorious Netzah Yehuda battalion, an ultra-Orthodox unit that operates on the West...
There is no greater strategic madness than the belief that nuclear superiority must be maintained at each rung of the nuclear ladder in order to...
There is no sign of Harris’s positions on Biden’s policy choices that would suggest strong differences or alternative approaches to change the...