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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...
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...
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.” ...
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,...
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. ...
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...