Dec 27, 2018 | Foreign Policy, Middle East & Israel, Terrorism, World
From the vantage of a quarter-century later, there’s a tragic irony in the history-making vibe that marked the signing of the Oslo peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians. When President Clinton proclaimed the event a “victory for peace,” he...
Dec 22, 2018 | 9/11, Foreign Policy, Middle East & Israel, Women's Rights & Abortion, World
The CIA has concluded that the Saudi crown prince ordered the grisly murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. After a closed-door CIA briefing, GOP senators emerged convinced of the Saudi regime’s complicity, and the Senate has unanimously voted to hold Mohammad bin...
Dec 20, 2018 | Middle East & Israel, Military, Philosophy, POLITICS, Terrorism
Seventeen years, 2,351 Americans dead, 20,094 wounded. These grim numbers scarcely begin tell the story of the Afghanistan war, which marked its 17th anniversary [this year]. It’s been a tragic failure, but for reasons few people understand. A lot went wrong, but the...
Jul 20, 2018 | Foreign Policy, United Nations, World
At long last, the United States is leaving the United Nations Human Rights Council — a morally corrupt U.N. organ that flagrantly betrays the ideal it supposedly upholds. The council has been a microcosm of the U.N.’s fundamental moral bankruptcy. Even as we...
Jul 7, 2018 | Classic, Foreign Policy, Middle East & Israel, United Nations, World
In June 2014, a jihadist group linked to Al Qaeda conquered large tracts of Syria and Iraq. After this swift rise to power, which took the world by surprise, the group declared itself a formal “caliphate,” or Islamist regime. Within the territory it controlled, the...
Jun 12, 2018 | Foreign Policy, Middle East & Israel, Terrorism, World
Two huge developments have put a renewed focus on the war-torn Middle East: President Trump’s abandonment of the Iran nuclear deal, and Israel’s air strikes on Iranian military bases in Syria. These may seem like yet more turmoil in a region marked by perpetual strife...
Jun 15, 2017 | 9/11, Foreign Policy, Middle East & Israel, World
On Donald Trump’s first foreign trip, he is visiting one of our putative allies in the Middle East: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. For the president, who has been called the great “disruptor” of American politics, the trip is an opening to begin...
May 25, 2017 | Foreign Policy, World
[This month] Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will visit Washington to renew the longstanding U.S.-Egyptian alliance. For years, Egypt has been viewed by Democrats and Republicans as a stalwart ally and rewarded with billions of dollars in aid. But...
Mar 20, 2017 | Books, Education, Freedom of Speech, Racism
At UCLA Law School last [month], a squad of student “thought police” tried to ban my book, Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: From George W. Bush to Barack Obama and Beyond. They don’t want you to know the book even exists, let alone...
