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President Donald Trump on Wednesday made a superb selection to be his new national security adviser. Robert C. O’Brien has been the president’s special envoy for hostage affairs since May…
On this coming Motzoei Shabbos, Jews of Askenazic descent will begin to recite Selichos, joining their Sephardic brethren who have been doing so since Rosh Chodesh Elul. These are days…
Back in the Before Time of 2016, I occasionally praised Sen. Marco Rubio (F-Fla.) for his foreign policy acumen. Unlike many of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle,…
As of this writing — 24 hours after Israelis went to the polls for the second time in less than six months — the country’s political future remains highly uncertain.…
By the time you read this, the day after the general elections will have arrived. The worst will finally be over. It was an ugly campaign, the ugliest in memory,…
We don’t often hear of righteous Palestinians who save Jews from terror attacks. It happened last weekend, when Dr. Amin Mansour, a dentist, helped a father and son who had…
A Nordic effort reminds us of a mitzvah for our time. As Jews the world over listened to Krias HaTorah on Shabbos morning Parashas Shoftim, someone at The New York…
CGI said it was a major Russian hack, but Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White Party, vehemently denied it and even insinuated that CGI has it out for…
Before we get to the heart of the matter, let’s start this conversation on a positive note. On September 9, California Governor Gavin Newsom took a bold step in expanding…
There is no question that the North American Free Trade Agreement and the United States’ failed China trade policies require a complete rewrite. As I have said publicly in the…
The most recent military strike on Saudi Arabian oil facilities over the weekend was an attack not only on the kindgom’s vital assets, but in effect constituted an attack on…
A powerful belief about American views of the world has taken hold among foreign policy experts — that Americans are exhausted from global overreach and want to shed the burdens…
Last Wednesday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the administration’s intention to remove all flavored “vaping” products from the market as part of an effort to stem use…
Three Scottish judges just lobbed a constitutional grenade onto an already bloody Brexit battlefield by ruling that Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Britain’s parliament is unlawful. If the Queen has…
Many of us of have a scorecard-like approach to our interpersonal relationships. We consider how much we have done for the other fellow versus how much he has done for…
President Donald Trump is taking a lot of criticism for abruptly cancelling talks he had hoped to sponsor between the Taliban and the government of Afghanistan at Camp David. But…
One of the many remarkable things about the contest for the 2020 Democratic party presidential nomination is that the name “Barack Obama” almost never passes the lips of the candidates.…
Since former vice president Joe Biden entered the Democratic primary, the conventional wisdom has been that so long as Democratic voters continue to view Biden as the most electable opponent…
The death of Robert Mugabe, the deposed tyrant of Zimbabwe, compels comment. Rarely has a national hero so betrayed the hopes of his people, with cruelty and corruption that defy…
Let our kindness not end at donations and delivery of relief supplies to the Bahamas. In the same way that after catastrophic Hurricane Andrew in 1992 people living in South…