human-rights

Last Monday, Stop the Bomb, a coalition of German activists and intellectuals who protest the German government’s and German corporations’ cooperation with the Iranian regime, held a protest outside a Courtyard Marriott Hotel in...

Thanksgiving Day update: Disappointing news from Washington D.C., as Simon Deng received an update that the Sudan Peace and Stability Act, sponsored by Senator John Kerry, is “on hold.” Kerry’s office did not share the...

At last weekend’s Foreign Policy Initiative conference in Washington D.C.: I asked Senator John McCain a two-part question. First, I asked if he was concerned about corruption in Iraq’s government.

Second, I asked him if he was...

Senator John McCain forcefully criticized President Barack Obama’s governance at this year’s forum of the Foreign Policy Initiative, a Washington-based think tank.

McCain, appearing at Sunday’s forum, specifically...

Bill O’Reilly interviewed former President George W. Bush today to coincide with the release of “Decision Points,” Bush’s memoir of his years in office. Most interesting were Bush’s comments about Iraq and...

Rhetorical sparks flew in Manhattan Friday as Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard University, and Scott Horton, contributing editor of Harper’s magazine, sparred on the subject of Lawfare, or the...

Today the Iranian regime is planning to execute, by hanging, a 43-year-old mother of two whose plight at the hands of Iran’s radical Islamist government has prompted an international outcry.

In September I wrote about this woman,...

Partnership based on economic interest could give US greater leverage against Iran, says Mithal al-Alusi, whose sons were murdered after he came to Israel in ’04.

Oil and water don’t usually mix. But one native son of the Middle East has...

Earlier this month actor George Clooney met with President Obama at the White House to urge him to prevent bloodshed in Sudan in advance of the controversial referendum planned for January 9 in which the mostly Christian South is predicted to...

Interesting piece in today’s New York Post about how Sunni sheiks and others in Iraq and Afghanistan are switching sides for fear that the U.S. will abandon them as President Obama draws down troops.

This state of affairs echoes what...