By Eli Clifton on Mar 18, 2025 12:05 am The Trump administration’s effort to deport a Columbia University graduate student, Mahmoud Khalil, in retaliation for Khalil’s role in campus protests opposing Israel’s war in Gaza, showed the lengths the White House is prepared to go to police speech about Israel. Read in browser »
By Jennifer Kavanagh on Mar 17, 2025 06:18 am “We're doing the entire world a favor by getting rid of these guys and their ability to strike global shipping,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Face the Nation on March 16 after President Donald Trump announced an extended campaign of U.S. military strikes intended to halt the Iranian-backed Houthis’ attacks on international commerce in the Red Sea. Read in browser »
By Ian Proud on Mar 17, 2025 12:05 am President Zelensky should have pressed ahead with peace talks in August 2024, rather than invading Kursk. Ahead of talks between Presidents Trump and Putin this week, he has no cards left to play. Read in browser »
By Mark Episkopos on Mar 15, 2025 08:28 am The Ukraine war, in addition to all the other ways in which one can describe it, has been a strangely humbling exercise for the foreign policy and military commentariat. Read in browser »
By Almut Rochowanski on Mar 13, 2025 12:05 am U.S. security experts and leaders have been telling European NATO allies to increase their defense spending for at least a quarter century, initially as a gentle nudging, later more insistently, rising to a deafening din after Trump’s election. Read in browser »
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos on Mar 12, 2025 04:54 pm Earlier today the Jewish Insider magazine ran a story saying that the White House tapped retired Lt. Col. Danny Davis for Deputy Director of National Intelligence, working under the newly confirmed DNI Tulsi Gabbard. It was a hit piece by a pro-Israel platform that primarily focused on Davis's critical views — published only in articles and on his popular podcast — on Gaza and Iran. Read in browser »
The Trump administration’s effort to deport a Columbia University graduate student, Mahmoud Khalil, in retaliation for Khalil’s role in campus protests opposing Israel’s war in Gaza, showed the lengths the White House is prepared to go to police speech about Israel.
“We're doing the entire world a favor by getting rid of these guys and their ability to strike global shipping,” 
President Zelensky should have pressed ahead with peace talks in August 2024, rather than invading Kursk. Ahead of talks between Presidents Trump and Putin this week, he has no cards left to play.
The Ukraine war, in addition to all the other ways in which one can describe it, has been a strangely humbling exercise for the foreign policy and military commentariat.
U.S. security experts and leaders have been telling European NATO allies to increase their defense spending for at least a quarter century, initially as a gentle nudging, later more insistently, rising to a deafening din after Trump’s election.
Earlier today the Jewish Insider magazine