I saw the new movie Route 60, The Biblical Highway the first day it was released in theaters. As the synopsis on the web site indicates, this is much more than a travel documentary: Carving through the heart of the…
In Cuba, the Biden administration is faced with another challenge to the Monroe Doctrine. Nearly 200 years ago, President James Monroe, at the urging of Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, warned foreign powers that “we should consider any attempt…
Ronald Reagan used to joke, “Hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why take the chance?” No one will accuse President Joe Biden of working hard. His work schedule reportedly only requires his attention six hours a day and…
Paul Bedard relays a hilarious story Mike Pompeo apparently tells in his book. As secretary of state, Pompeo made a request to the department’s inspector general. “I told them that my wife flies to foreign countries to give speeches for…
The year 2022 was not a good one for former President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. From disappointing midterm results to accumulating legal troubles, the Trump 2024 campaign is battling on multiple fronts to keep its head above water….
Michael J. Green is what was once called a “China hand” who served in the George W. Bush administration as director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council. He is also the author of a very good book about…
As Francis Sempa reports in this publication, Robert Kaplan and Mike Pompeo take very different views on the future course of American grand strategy, with Pompeo advocating a more muscular approach and Kaplan favoring restraint. While I respect both, having…
The American foreign policy debate just shifted into high gear with an op-ed piece in the Washington Times by former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo and an essay in Foreign Affairs by Robert D. Kaplan, perhaps our nation’s…
Earlier this year, Ian Easton, a former China analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses and currently senior director at the Project 2049 Institute, a think tank that focuses on U.S. security interests in the Indo-Pacific region, wrote a book…
The passing of Queen Elizabeth II reminds us that “some achieve greatness,” as playwright William Shakespeare once wrote. Former President Donald J. Trump now faces the choice deciding whether he will achieve greatness. He can either go down in history…