Lee Smith is the author of Disappearing the President: Trump, Truth Social, and the Fight for the Republic (2024).
A controversial Koch-backed appointment is retracted, ostensibly over Middle East issues. But the battle is really about China.
The former secretary of state’s 1972 opening to China badly weakened the U.S. By dispensing with that conceit, Trump shows he intends for America to win the great-power competition.
The debate over the nomination of Elbridge ‘Bridge’ Colby pits some of Donald Trump’s most prominent second-term supporters against the president’s own policies
Donald Trump reminds the world that ideas have sell-by dates
A front-runner for the top White House intelligence job may be planning to run cover for the IC, sources say
The former president lost big on Nov. 5. But he doesn’t seem interested in leaving D.C., or American politics.
Israel shows America how to win wars
How Barack Obama ended normalcy in American politics
It wasn’t Donald Trump, or Joe Biden
The point of the U.S. deal isn’t peace. It’s to prevent the two American allies from coming together, while subordinating them both to Iran.
Why is the Biden administration dangling the Hamas chief in exchange for stopping the Gaza war? Because the terror group’s survival is key to the administration’s larger project in the Middle East.
The Palestinian terror organization refuses to release hostages while clinging to its last stronghold in Rafah. So why is the Biden administration throwing the full weight of the U.S. government at Israel to prevent it from routing Hamas?
The emirate’s role as a back channel between the U.S. and Iran has metastasized into something far more dangerous
The Palestinians have something better than a state. They have the backing of today’s worldwide power brokers.
An information warfare campaign tries to flip demoralized portions of the right into supporting Hamas and Obama’s Iran deal
The D.C. blame game is about avoiding responsibility while protecting a policy that is written in blood
It was the first in a series of hugely consequential lies that will shape our country as much as the Middle East
The trail that leads from Tehran to D.C. passes directly through the offices of Robert Malley and the International Crisis Group
