Obama’s Year In Review
ISIS, Ferguson, the Senate, Ukraine, Ebola, border kids. Really, this was a pretty awful sixth year for the president. Not that he’s acting like it. by James Oliphant …
How to fight the lone wolf
by Charles Krauthammer • Washington Post The lone wolf is the new nightmare, dramatized and amplified this week by the hostage-taking attack in Sydney. But there are two kinds of…
Taliban and ISIS sink to ever newer levels of atrocities
The extremists are copying Islamic State’s terror strategy By H.D.S. Greenway • The Boston Globe It is a sad fact of modern life that homicidally inclined extremists feel they…
Encircling Baghdad: The Country that Became a City-State
by Dr. Larry Franklin ISIS-led anti-government Sunni Islam coalition troops have virtually surrounded Baghdad. Iraq’s largest province, al-Anbar, is almost totally occupied by anti-regime forces. Only a portion of Fallujah…
The Pass-the-Buck Presidency
The president has a pattern of deflecting blame and denying responsibility. With military action against ISIS underway, that’s a dangerous habit. by Josh Kraushaar • National…
Remembering 9/11/2001
Lessons Learned? Or Repeating the Same Mistakes? by George Landrith • Frontiers of Freedom When Ronald Reagan was asked what his plan was for dealing with the…
A World of Trouble for Obama
Public support for the president’s foreign policy is waning—and he’s losing Democratic lawmakers by William A. Galston • Wall Street Journal In March my Brookings colleague…
The Collapse of Obama’s Foreign Policy
by Rich Lowry • Politico Magazine President Barack Obama’s stated goal in the fight against the Islamic State, aka ISIL, is to reduce it to a…