by A.J. Caschetta The Democrats’ outrage over Gina Haspel’s candidacy for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency is based on three erroneous assumptions: first, the belief that the CIA engaged in a thinly-veiled torture program against Al-Qaeda detainees; second, the belief that the program ...Read More...

President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, March 2017.   By A.J. Caschetta   There's a new political order taking shape in the Middle East, and it's shaking up the academic order that has dominated Middle East studies for over three decades. With Iran, Qatar, Turkey, and ...Read More...

by A.J. Caschetta The Taylor Force Act (TFA) passed the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously on Wednesday and is expected to pass the full house with wide bipartisan support. The Taylor Force Act marks a noble and long overdue departure from the “anything goes” attitude ...Read More...

by A.J. Caschetta In spite of recent polls indicating that ordinary Palestinians increasingly recognize that Israel is here to stay, the rejectionist Palestinian leadership remains the most formidable obstacle to a peace agreement with the Jewish state.  But running a close second place is the ...Read More...

by A.J. Caschetta In an era when saying the wrong thing, deemed offensive by someone, can end a career, social justice warriors always seem to get a pass. Few have received more than Linda Sarsour, a Muslim self-styled “feminist” who supports a political system that systematically represses women, ...Read More...

by A.J. Caschetta  The 1,773 fires that ravaged Israel in November may or may not have been started by terrorists, but the arrests of dozens of suspects have inspired pundits to speculate about “arson terrorism” as the latest stage in the evolution of jihadist tactics.   If fires that destroyed ...Read More...