For decades, I have worked with people struggling for human rights and freedom under authoritarian governments around the world. During my years as president of Freedom House and throughout my subsequent work on democracy and human rights, I learned an enduring lesson: Dictatorships depend not only on repression at home, but also on the assumption […]
Earlier this month, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden instructed Israel how to live, or rather die slowly. Their amnesia was convenient. They announced new trade restrictions on the Jewish state over expanding Israeli settlements on the West Bank. According to London, Paris, and Ottawa’s misinformation, […]
There was a barge in the water off a private island in the Bahamas, and on the last night of the party the fireworks went up from it — a display that runs about $70,000 from a professional outfit. Somebody paid for that barge, and for the second private island where the reception was held, […]
Throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, the United States spent billions and billions of dollars to prevent communism from spreading throughout the world. Why would we write off New York City and abdicate to this dangerous ideology now? We were told that this thinking was rejected and left upon the ash heap of history, for […]
Europe has spent four years preparing for a future in which Russia remains the principal threat, Ukraine must be kept in the fight, and Germany finally accepts the financial burden of defending the continent. Then voters in Saxony-Anhalt delivered a different message. Alternative for Germany won 43.8% of the vote in the state election, more than doubling […]
The escalating war around Saudi Arabia and the Red Sea is not merely another Middle Eastern conflict. It threatens two pillars of the international economic system: the free movement of global commerce and the security of the world’s energy supplies. The Iran-backed Houthis’ expansion along Yemen’s Red Sea coast and their ability to threaten the […]
The latest announcement from Tehran should command the immediate attention of the American national security establishment. Fars News Agency, one of the Islamic Republic’s principal state-aligned media outlets, has announced the launch of an intelligence and surveillance system called “Alaj,” whose declared purpose is to identify and track Iranians abroad who Tehran considers to be […]
