Military & Security

A defining feature of a democracy that sets it sharply apart from autocracy is that no citizen is above the law. Donald Trump believes he enjoys unique impunity. U.S. Attorney-General Merrick Garland disagrees. Despite years of attempts by public prosecutors and U.S. Congressional committees to bring Trump to …

Eng. Saleem Al Batayneh Amidst the gloom and the pervasive sense of conspiracy theories that permeate our thoughts and surroundings, a crucial question lingers: What awaits us in the aftermath of the Gaza tragedy? Despite the weightiness of the current atmosphere, it is imperative to address this concern …

Russians are frustrated because they lost the Cold War. But why would right-of-center Americans, long proud to be the victors, feel a similarly deep resentment? In the 1970s, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov developed his theory of convergence – how the Soviet and U.S. systems would draw closer together. …

Republicans who claim to put country before party must rise up along with their Democratic colleagues to save the United States from Donald Trump. I am still at pains to internalize what sinister schemes Republican leaders in the House and Senate are concocting only to retain power, at …

Instead of hungering for power and party control, U.S. politicians should be hungering for solutions to the economic problems that vex the country. For U.S. Republicans and Democrats, default is a game of chicken where no one veers off course until the last minute. Rather than finding a …

As we advance and deepen this new Libyan National Dialogue, we are not merely discussing our country’s future—we are actively shaping it. In the wake of a tumultuous decade marked by conflict and division, Libya stands on the brink of a promising new chapter. Earlier this year, responding …

The choice that Washington will face is between continuing to strive for dominance or working together with other powers—NATO in Europe, the Israeli-Arab partnership in the Middle East, and the Quad in Asia—to contain threats to the international system. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the greatest …

The Lebanese para-military may hesitate before gambling away its remaining leverage over Lebanon through reckless retaliation against Israel. The Israeli strike on Hamas’s political leadership on Tuesday threw wide open a new stage of escalation in the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict. Among the dead was Saleh al-Arouri, an agile …

Following Nasrallah’s rhetoric, it seems the Lebanese people should brace themselves. A response from Hezbollah is inevitable. Beirut—In a recent interview with CNN, Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib made a stunning concession that his government cannot control Hezbollah’s decision to enter further hostilities with Israel. “It’s …