Debunking the latest claptrap on American policy and Israeli settlements

The historian of American statecraft and spycraft and conservative political philosopher Angelo Codevilla talks about the ruling elite, Jonathan Pollard, and the rise of the techno-surveillance state—and the consequent demise of the American Empire

Five years after the Islamic State’s massacre of Yazidis in Sinjar, Iraq, it seems harder than ever to get Western leaders to live up to protecting minority ethnic or religious groups from extinction in the Middle East

The late senator embodied the classical republican virtue of aristocracy, yet he was not above the barbarous opportunism that brought us Sarah Palin, and her political heirs

Successive two-term administrations made a mess of the Middle East. Who will clean up?

Did the U.S. choose to ignore the source of 1999 bombings that propelled the security-agency bureaucrat to the top post he has never relinquished?

What happened to the most powerful lobby in recent U.S. foreign-policy history?

A new collection of the late historian’s essays says more about his prejudices than about his achievements

The new documentary fails to elicit answers to the most important, and still unresolved, questions about the Iraq War

The point of Sept. 11 wasn’t to terrorize the West. It was to get the U.S. out of the Muslim world—and it worked.

Former president giving keynote address at group’s annual fundraiser

The historical relationship—and the proximity to power it afforded—enabled wider acceptance of Jews in America

In the wake of the military takeover, realists and neocons revisit the legacy of George W. Bush’s Freedom Agenda

Looking back on the arguments and the outcome

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and the Israeli documentary ‘The Gatekeepers’ are up for Academy Awards. Only one should win.