Making a Killing Podcast
The new US Strategy on Countering Corruption was released hours before the Summit for Democracy and promises to rewrite the rulebook on global anticor...
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National Review
China’s accelerating military modernization has spurred a growing fatalism among some defense experts, maintaining that Taiwan is undefendable and t...
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Wall Street Journal
Eighty years ago, imperial Japan used a technology first developed by the U.S. and the U.K.—carrier-based bombing and torpedo attacks—to cripple t...
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Wall Street Journal
As President Biden tries to prevent a Russian attack on Ukraine, his administration continues to wrestle with a world that has refused to conform to i...
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National Review
President Biden’s meeting with Xi Jinping on November 15 shifted media attention from COP26 back to great-power politics, but a more subtle, yet per...
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Hudson Institute
This week, the U.S. will launch its tentpole effort at restoring global democracy to a firm footing. The Summit for Democracy, which will bring togeth...
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Counterbalance Podcast
Mike talks with Hudson Institute’s Rob Greenway to provide a regional diagnosis of the Middle East. Greenway demonstrates how important American lea...
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Newlines
Sitting in a plastic chair under the shade of a large rosewood tree, Alhaji Auta apologizes that he cannot serve me a full meal. He had planned to sla...
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The Federalist
Efforts to draft America’s daughters for war is the perfect example of how the left’s quest for dissolving the distinctions between men and women ...
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Fox News
In an interview with Martha MacCallum on Fox News, David Asher discusses ongoing investigations into the origins of COVID-19. ...
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Wall Street Journal
The Omicron scare provided a face-saving way to cancel the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, scheduled to open Nov. 30 in Geneva...
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Wall Street Journal
As diplomats prepare for December’s 110-government virtual Summit for Democracy, there is much hand-wringing over democracy’s global retreat. That...
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National Interest
The announcement that South Korean technology giant Samsung will build a $17 billion semiconductor manufacturing facility in Texas is a bellwether for...
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Relevant Radio
In an interview with Drew Mariani on Relevant Radio, Melanie Kirkpatrick discusses the origin of Thanksgiving. ...
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Defense News
If the Pentagon wants a force that can fight jointly, it needs to abandon standards as it knows them. Since the last National Defense Strategy, senio...
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RealClear Defense
According to satellite imagery taken on 23 October, the People’s Liberation Army’s Type-003 aircraft carrier is nearing completion. Between 18 Se...
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Wall Street Journal
As we mark the 400th anniversary of what has come to be known as the First Thanksgiving, it is sadly necessary to come to the defense of the long-cher...
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Providence Magazine
After decades of disturbing eyewitness reports, today’s international religious freedom observers have become deeply concerned about Nigeria’s imp...
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Pacific Research Institute
In a podcast interview on Next Round for the Pacific Research Institute, Melanie Kirkpatrick discusses the history of Thanksgiving. ...
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NPR
In an interview on NPR, Melanie Kirkpatrick discusses Thanksgiving. ...
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Wall Street Journal
Asia First does not mean Asia Alone. That is the hard lesson the world is busy teaching the Biden administration and the U.S. In Europe, American dipl...
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Wall Street Journal
The year following the famous feast that has come to be known as the First Thanksgiving, a slim volume of Pilgrim writings titled “Mourt’s Relation” ...
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Politico
With the armada of private jets departed from Glasgow after the COP26 climate change conference, the world is left to reflect on "yet another round()"...
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Making a Killing Podcast
Casey talks to Nate and Paul about his debut book, which chronicles the rise of US financial secrecy through the colorful stories of two famous klepto...
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The Hill
Careful observers of international affairs must remain attentive to the COP26 spectacle in Glasgow. The Biden administration seems fully committed to ...
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Foreign Affairs
For many of the last 30 years, the notion that the United States was locked in direct contest with other great powers seemed as outdated as the Cold W...
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Fox Business
In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business, Rebeccah Heinrichs discusses the Biden-Xi virtual summit. ...
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American Purpose
China poses the most direct challenge to America’s international position since the Soviet Union. True, since 2016, the U.S. public has become incre...
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New York Post
Call it Wuhangate. The scientific and circumstantial evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic resulted from a lab accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virol...
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Wall Street Journal
If there is one thing the world should take away from the Glasgow COP26 summit, it’s that the most dangerous greenhouse-gas emissions come from the ...
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CNBC
In an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box, H.R. McMaster discusses the U.S.-China relationship ahead of the Biden-Xi summit. ...
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Fox News
In an interview with Trey Yingst on Fox News Rundown, H.R. McMaster discusses the importance of honoring those who served. ...
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Counterbalance Podcast
Jonathan Schanzer, the Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has written the first book-length assessment of...
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Sinclair
In an interview with James Rosen, Peter Rough discusses green energy technology and national security. ...
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Wall Street Journal
Proponents of communism often say it’s never really been tried. Progressivism can no longer make that excuse. Its doctrines are being widely impleme...
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New York Post
Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and . . . Xi Jinping? Five years ago, China’s Communist Party bestowed on Xi the title of “core” leader, placing the ...
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Making a Killing Podcast
Casey, Nate and Paul discuss the kleptocrats at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), the role of bribery in driving environmenta...
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Hillsdale
In an interview on Radio Free Hillsdale, Melanie Kirkpatrick discusses Thanksgiving and Sarah Josepha Hale. ...
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The Straits Times
An intensifying China-U.S. rivalry may soon test the limits of deterrence theory. ...
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The Australian
A caricature of Australian strategic policy since Federation is that we slavishly attach ourselves to the dominant Western naval power of the day in t...
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Wall Street Journal
On Veterans Day, it’s hard to look away from the catastrophe in Afghanistan. The consequences of a war lost through incompetence, delusion and self-...
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Forbes
Everyone was stunned when the new mayor of New York City Eric Adams announced he was planning to receive his first three paychecks in Bitcoin, the cry...
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Fox Business
In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business, Rebeccah Heinrichs discusses rising tensions with China. ...
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CNN
I was born in a Chinese reeducation camp, where my mother was detained in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, which many Uyghurs call East Turkista...
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Providence Magazine
The United States is finally, at least rhetorically, committed to competing in an age of great power competition. The Trump administration made the co...
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Fox News
In an interview with Martha MacCallum on Fox News, David Asher discusses COVID-19 origins. ...
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Wall Street Journal
“A man of determination and action,” gushed China’s official news outlet Xinhua in a courageously fawning 12,000-word profile. “A man of profo...
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Japan Forward
With the election over, it is now both the best of times and the worst of times for Prime Minister Kishida and the security challenges facing Japan. ...
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War on the Rocks
The final assessment of the USS Bonhomme Richard fire reveals that the U.S. Navy is hobbled by questionable training, a shortage of personnel, and a g...
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Making a Killing Podcast
Casey speaks with Lakshmi Kumar, policy director at Global Financial Integrity, about the damaging - and deadly - consequences of money laundering in ...
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Wall Street Journal
The Group of 20 summit in Rome last weekend was highly unusual. Unlike most global gabfests, it actually mattered—not because the sterile G-20 forma...
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Wall Street Journal
‘Strategic ambiguity” is the longstanding U.S. policy toward Taiwan, but President Biden’s approach has been more ambiguous than strategic. Aske...
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American Purpose
During a visit to the ruins of the city of Gauda, Suchitra Vijayan ran across a honeymooning couple from Gujarat. “I salute our armed forces!” sho...
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National Review
The warrior ethos that emerged in the modern Western world has its origins in the warrior myth as embodied by Achilles, the hero of the Trojan War in ...
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Newsweek
The Financial Times reported earlier this month that China launched two hypersonic missiles last summer. The launch—using what's called a "fract...
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Making a Killing Podcast
Casey and Paul discuss the US Treasury Department's recent sanctions review, raids on sanctioned Russian oligarchs, and why targeted sanctions rema...
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Current Trends in Islamist Ideology
Post-Qadhafi Libya has been defined by chaos, division and disintegration. With the once-strong center in tatters, the country has fragmented into an ...
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Washington Times
Our enemies see a diminished America as a win for them. Our friends see it as a loss. When we work together with friends and allies, we — and all th...
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RealClear Defense
The Financial Times report about China's new hypersonic weapon has caused a stir among the Washington policy class. The FT indicated that Chin...
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Current Trends in Islamist Ideology
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous state, faces intersecting and multidimensional security crises in nearly every part of the country. In northeastern ...
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Current Trends in Islamist Ideology
For centuries, most African Muslims observed their faith according to Sufi practices. Syncretic, mystical, and emphasizing experiencing God, Sufism wa...
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Wall Street Journal
After almost two years of Covid-induced absence from Paris and Berlin, I returned to the old world to make a surprising discovery: Europe no longer un...
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Current Trends in Islamist Ideology
In March 2021, the Mozambican jihadist group Ahlus Sunnah Wal-Jama’ah (ASWJ) launched a highly coordinated attack on Palma, a coastal town in northe...
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Counterbalance Podcast
Professor Brenda Shaffer, Research Faculty Member at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Senior Advisor for Energy at the Foundation for the Defense o...
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Hudson Institute
On October 19, 2021, Hudson Institute honored Hudson Trustee Linden Blue and Neal Blue with the 2021 Herman Kahn Award, in recognition of their contri...
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RealClear Health
The Covid-19 pandemic grinds on with the Delta variant dashing hopes of a return to normalcy this fall. Throughout, politicians and activists have mad...
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Wall Street Journal
The Defense Department is in trouble under the Biden administration. It surrendered to the Taliban and has been slow in responding to the challenge po...
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Fox News
The Biden administration’s mounting Afghanistan, immigration, and spending woes threaten to obscure its failure to hold Beijing accountable for the ...
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Defense News
The current American consumer goods crisis presages the effects of a militarized Sino-American confrontation. Indeed, confrontation is increasingly i...
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RealClear Defense
The confirmation on 7 October that U.S. Special Operations Forces have been training the Taiwanese military since last year is a welcome sign of polic...
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National Interest
Henry Kissinger thought in triangles. His strategic triangle featured the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. Today, there is a new strategic ...
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The Heritage Foundation
Central to the effectiveness of U.S. strategic deterrence is convincing our enemies of our resolve to defend American vital interests from aggression ...
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Wall Street Journal
As energy prices soar around the world, the key assumption behind President Biden’s foreign policy faces a severe test. That assumption is that aggr...
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PHP Research Institute
As China continues its rapid rise to power, the East Asian region can expect to see instability remain a fact of life for some time to come. What mu...
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Fox News
In an interview with David Asher on Fox News, David Asher discusses COVID origins. ...
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Fox Business
In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business, Rebeccah Heinrichs discusses oil prices. ...
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National Review
"China Demonstrates Most Powerful Quantum Computer.” That was the headline from the Australian scientific journal Cosmos this July, which came w...
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Making a Killing Podcast
Casey, Nate and Paul discuss the biggest stories emerging from Azerbaijan, Chile, Czech Republic, Pakistan and elsewhere, amid calls for heightened sc...
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Counterbalance Podcast
Elbridge Colby, author of The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, joins Marshall to discuss how great power compet...
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CNBC
In an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box, H.R. McMaster discusses China’s increasing threat in the Indo-Pacific. ...
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Wall Street Journal
Xi Jinping stunned the world over the weekend. The Chinese leader’s Oct. 9 speech left no doubt about his commitment to the ultimate incorporation o...
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Wall Street Journal
A picture is worth a thousand policy briefs. On Oct. 4, Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, mugged for the cameras. Beaming before reporters, h...
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Counterbalance Podcast
Mike & Marshall return from their fall break to reflect on how group-think within academia today has created a dangerous culture of consensus of analy...
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Rolling Stone
The following is an excerpt from Casey Michel’s book, “American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme...
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Government Matters
In an interview on Government Matters, Bryan Clark discusses the China threat and U.S. national defense strategy. ...
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Making a Killing Podcast
Miranda Patrucic, a senior Organized Crime and Corruption Project journalist who worked on the Pandora Papers, explains how she followed the money as ...
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Mandiner Magazine
A conversation with Sándor Lénárd, Institute for American Studies, Hungarian University of Public Service ...
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Fox News
In an interview with Bill Hemmer on America’s Newsroom, Tom DiNanno discusses COVID origins. ...
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Foreign Policy
To hear Western politicians tell it, liberal democracies are in an existential fight against the forces of autocracy, despotism, and dictatorship arou...
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Wall Street Journal
The world has been watching as the Chinese real-estate giant Evergrande flails, and some have been asking whether Beijing will soon have a moment akin...
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RealClear Defense
Since last Friday, 1 October, the Chinese Communist Party has escalated its incursions into Taiwanese airspace. Initially, this coincided with China'...
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The Hill
It is a question of time until terror attacks occur again with their roots in a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The news cycle, of course, has alread...
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Wall Street Journal
Political junkies are fixated on the stalemate over two (two!) trillion-dollar-plus spending bills whose failure could derail Joe Biden’s presidency...
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The Straits Times
Asean, the Quad and Aukus are the load-bearing pillars on which Indo-Pacific security will rest in the coming decades. The first is a norm-builder, th...
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National Review
Last Friday, President Biden met with his Indian, Australian, and Japanese counterparts for their Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (the “Quad” for ...
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Fox News
In an interview with Neil Cavuto on ‘Your World,’ Rebeccah Heinrichs discusses Gen. Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s congression...
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Making a Killing Podcast
Casey, Paul and Nate discuss why Hunter Biden’s plan to auction his artwork to anonymous bidders engages serious money laundering risks, what Meng Wan...
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The Hill
There’s a familiar saying: Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. “Fool me three times, however, and all is forgiven” has become ...
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Wall Street Journal
International summits almost inevitably end in grandiose joint communiqués, most of which are quickly forgotten. This month’s announcement of the A...
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RealClear Defense
Although thankfully rescinded now, France’s recall of its American ambassador risked transforming the diplomatic row over AUKUS, the newly-formed Au...
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