ISIS has erased the line between foreign and domestic policy
Not since the Vietnam War has a foreign-policy issue transformed Western domestic politics in the way the threat from Islamic State (ISIS) has. Neither...
Why you can't just wipe out mosquitoes to get rid of the Zika virus
On Saturday Colombia's national health institute confirmed that more than 2,100 pregnant Colombian women are infected with the Zika virus, which has been linked...
BDS extremists are playing into their enemies’ hands
By the time Hurricane Harvey ended its destruction of the Gulf of Mexico and the Texas coast in August, 75 people had lost their...
How a N.Y. judge inspired Apple's encryption fight
Last October, prosecutors from the Justice Department asked a federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn to issue an order directing Apple to help the Drug...
Super Tuesday victories are nice, but Trump was already a 'winner'
"We have expanded the Republican Party," Donald Trump declared in Palm Beach, Florida, as he discussed his Super Tuesday primary wins. "We are going...
Behind Saudi Arabia’s bluster is a country that feels under grave threat
Everybody suddenly seems to have an opinion about Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, until his execution on Saturday an obscure Saudi Shia cleric. Once his death...
Virus crisis to accelerate breakdown in Iran’s client states
As if losing their most famous general and facing the prospect of unending US sanctions wasn’t enough, there’s now another thing for the embattled...
Western dream of regime change in Iran is over, so what's next?
The signing of the nuclear accord between Iran and the P5+1 answered a question that has bedeviled the U.S.-Iranian relationship for 36 years.
Decades after...
Saudis must be grateful to expatriate workers
The development witnessed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the past 40 years is unparalleled anywhere in the world. No doubt this can...
What Obama can learn from Vladimir Putin
As President Barack Obama prepares to sit down with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New...
