Opinion

Why Do These Young Muslims Hate Us?

    America’s Muslims are very diverse, largely middle class and mostly mainstream; they are much less alienated than European Muslims, and many of them decidedly...

The Tolerable Level of Terrorism

    "Round up the usual suspects" was the brunt of President Obama's address to the American public after last week's San Bernardino massacre. Obama offered...

ISIS Is Expanding Its International Reach. That Is Hardly a Sign of Weakness

    The United Nations’ sanctions monitoring team warned last Tuesday that Libya wasemerging as a key stronghold for Islamic State close to the shorelines of...

Can Washington Unite on Fighting Islamic State?

    President Barack Obama clearly intended his Sunday night address from the Oval Office to pull the nation together behind his strategy for fighting Islamic...

The Big Hole in Obama’s Islamic State Strategy

      At the center of President Obama’s strategy for dealing with the Islamic State is an empty space. It’s supposed be filled by a hypothetical...

Open the Door for Persecuted Iraqi Christians

      Of course, the Texas senator’s suggestion that Christians should be accepted into the United States as refugees, in exclusive preference over Muslims, was, as...

Will Parliament Really Take Off?

        We all support the state. Nobody supports the non-state. Nobody wants Egypt to become like it was in 3,200 BC before King Narmer united...

What Is Salafism: How a Nonpolitical Ideology Became a Political Force?

    In the wake of the bombing of the Russian plane in Sinai and the attacks in Paris, the self-proclaimed Islamic State (also known as...

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