As Congress races to find a legislative solution to address the pending end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in March, most media attention has been focused on covering these proposals. However, one border security-related bill recently passed with flying colors that garnered little notice — and may have a significant impact […]
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U.S. Must Decide What to do Next for Iraq
ISIS has commanded the attention of the United States since it burst on the international political scene in 2014. But before the U.S. can take a victory lap about its defeat of ISIS, it needs to figure out what to do next for Iraq. Throughout the 2016 presidential election, then-candidate Donald Trump vowed to lift […]
Aging Missile Arsenal Ending Service Life
A recent headline in the Los Angeles Times asked the question, “Upgrading U.S. nuclear missiles, as Russia and China modernize, would cost $85 billion. Is it time to quit the ICBM Race?” The authors of the article, W.J. Hennigan and Ralph Vartabedian, point out that in addition to Russia and China’s upgrade of their nuclear […]
Saudi Arabia on Precipice of Uncertainty
Saudi Arabia is the country’s strongest Muslim ally in the Middle East. Our fight against Islamic militancy is only successful to varying degrees because allies like Saudi Arabia stand with us. Saudi Arabia’s ability and willingness to do so, however, depends on its own political stability. That stability has been not only disturbed, it’s been […]
Perspective: REAL ID Act May Require Passport for Some Travelers
Nearly two million Americans board airplanes on a daily basis. The idea of needing a passport for domestic travel has likely never crossed most people’s minds – in fact only around 40 percent of Americans even have a passport – but all of that may change once we see the full enforcement of the REAL […]