Monday marks the second anniversary of a Tunisian fruit vendor’s self-immolation that triggered the Arab Awakening. It is widely understood that a fundamental source of the strife is a crisis of political legitimacy, a millennium-old malady of Islamic societies. Less…

By Bill Smearcheck, JINSA Policy Associate

A simmering dispute between the United States and Israel heated up this week as leaders of both countries traded sharp statements.  On the surface, and according to most media accounts, the disagreement stems from Israel’s dissatisfaction that the United States…

As efforts continue to prevent Iran from making nuclear weapons, a central Iranian negotiating demand is acknowledgment of its “right” to enrich uranium under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Although spurious, this assertion has gone without a forceful public challenge. By…