The publicity campaign surrounding Oppenheimer strikes as more posthumous reputational rehabilitation than movie promotion. Last year, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm vacated the Atomic Energy Commission’s 1954 decision to revoke the security clearance of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Given that the…
One of the early scenes in the movie 1776 shows John Adams despairing for America’s freedom from British oppression. He sings, “Is anybody there? Does anybody care?” That scene came to mind when the latest news broke about Iran’s hell-for-leather…
As protests rage across Iran, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding (ACMCU) Honorary Fellow and perennial think tanker Shireen T. Hunter assured her audience that American policymakers “know that Iran doesn’t have that kind of capacity” to develop…
No one messes with him, Biden declares, when everyone knows everyone does and how!
President Joe Biden has followed in President Barack Obama’s footsteps in rewarding Iranian bad behavior with carrots rather than punishing it with sticks. Biden is desperately seeking a new Iranian nuclear deal despite prevarication by Tehran and continued troublemaking in…
At about the time President Joe Biden left for his trip to the Middle East, rapper Snoop Dogg advertised his new brand of cannabis called “Sleepy Joe OG,” which features a picture of a befuddled Biden on the label. It…
Progressive U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East deserves a tragicomic TV series called How to Undermine Friends and Empower Enemies. The plotline of How to Undermine Friends and Empower Enemies is formulaic. The president, his advisers, and members of…
The Biden administration’s recent efforts to resurrect the 2015 Obama-era Iran nuclear deal have been met with bipartisan skepticism, as Republicans and Democrats alike have expressed their concerns. Lawmakers have highlighted that they have largely been left in the dark…
When do democracies become decisive? It’s pretty rare. The uncivil standoff that has been most of American politics since the last presidential landslide — Reagan’s colossal win in 1984 — is the norm. But even that win did not give…
Last week, the Israeli government warned President Biden that the new U.S. approach to Iran, seeking to revive former president Obama’s 2015 nuclear weapons deal with the ayatollahs, is exceedingly dangerous. The Israelis warn of a “less for less” deal…