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Paul R. PillarThe National Interest |
In the Middle East, putting out burning fires is a priority. Larger positive accomplishments are impossible as long as the bloodshed continues....
Donald Trump’s peculiar relationship with Russia and its regime is getting some renewed attention and deserves to get even more. Some recent...
U.S. policy toward Iran clearly has failed. This has been conspicuously true for at least the last six years since former president Donald Trump...
With the record of newly minted Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris being freshly scrutinized, one recently recalled item is her reaction to...
The extraordinary departure by the Republican majority on the Supreme Court regarding presidential immunity—which understandably elicited shocked...
Political moderation has won a victory in Iran. Cardiac surgeon and former health minister Masoud Pezeshkian defeated stalwart conservative Saeed...
The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and other Palestinian territories is now more than a half-century old. The fading of memories with time has...
The spread of protests against policies that have generated the current humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip has been remarkable. Initially...
The latest Israeli heightening of violence in an already violent region presents the Biden administration with one of its biggest challenges yet in...
The Chinese ownership of the video app TikTok—targeted by a bill that the House of Representatives passed with a large bipartisan majority—might...
The news about Alexander Smirnov, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen with murky connections in former Soviet republics, was quite a comedown from what...
The Biden administration continues to give high priority to brokering a Saudi-Israeli diplomatic normalization agreement. The political motivations...
The U.S.-Soviet Cold War, now more than three decades in the past, is generally considered a “win” for the United States. But even during the Cold...
This week, the International Court of Justice begins consideration of whether the devastation and deprivation that Israel is inflicting on the Gaza...
Israel’s war in Gaza has become one of the biggest political negatives of Joe Biden’s presidency. Part of this political fallout was inevitable...