After the looming fiscal cliff, the next major challenge facing the United States will be preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapons capability. Living with a nuclear Iran is strategically untenable. Like the fiscal cliff, this is a matter of…

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…