How’s Congress Doing on the Citizens’ Mandate?
Surely you recall that American voters last November gave a mandate for change. You might even have been one of...
Open Letter to Congress: INTERIM ASSESSMENT from the Citizens’ Mandate
Open Letter to Congress: INTERIM ASSESSMENT from the Citizens’ Mandate May 18, 2015 With last November’s election of a new...
Boston Marathon Bomber Given Death Penalty
A federal jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death on Friday after being convicted last month of 30 federal charges, 17...
Afghanistan-Taliban peace talks not as successful as some make it seem
An exciting concert in a Kabul, Afghanistan hotel turned deadly Wednesday evening when a Taliban gunman opened fire inside the...
Chinese Hackers Target Naval Research
It is being reported that Chinese state-sponsored hackers have been combing Penn State’s College of Engineering servers for the past...
Why Did GCC Summit Fail in Its Mission? Look to Syria.
On Thursday, President Barack Obama met with representatives from all six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman,...
Islamic State Attacks Palmyra & Takes Ramadi
Islamic State rebels engaged troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad less than a mile outside the ancient city of...
Nkurunziza Returns to Burundi, Coup Leaders Arrested
Three army generals who helped lead the coup in Burundi have been arrested. Nkurunziza claims to have returned to Burundi...
Obama’s Provocative Unreliability
President Obama held a summit yesterday with what he would call the “JV team” of the Gulf Cooperation Council. Most...
Understanding Mokhtar Belmokhtar’s Pledge to Islamic State
Update: The Long War Journal argued May 14th that Adnan Abou Walid Sahraoui's pledge to Abuk Bakr al-Baghdadi and Islamic...
Investigation Uncovers Turkish Arms Smuggling To Islamic State
Questions have arisen in Turkey over allegations that trucks belonging to Turkey's intelligence service National Intelligence Organization (MİT) have been...
Could Kurdish riots in Iran be the beginning of Kurdish Spring?
On May 4, Farinaz Khosravani, a maid at the four-star Tarai hotel in Mahabad, Iran died after falling from a 4th floor...
Iran Threatens War While Escalating Maritime Belligerence
Five Iranian boats fired shots at a Singapore-flagged vessel in the Persian Gulf on Thursday, May 14, 2015. The ship,...
Rep. Pompeo On Why Congress Must Extend NSA Metadata Program
Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-KS) delivered a brilliant lecture yesterday at the Hudson Institute on why Congress must extend the NSA...
Secure the Grid Now!
Quick: What is the single most important public policy issue of our time? Everyone, of course, has a different answer....
Military Seizes Power in Burundi Following Political Upheaval
On Wednesday, May 13th, a military committee led by Army General Godefroid Niyombara launched a coup against the already volatile...