From arms to renewables: How workers in this Southern military industrial hub are converting the economy
Huntsville, Alabama is teeming with engineers and STEM talent. Some are leaving the defense economy for the clean energy one.
Huntsville, Alabama is teeming with engineers and STEM talent. Some are leaving the defense economy for the clean energy one.
Congress has been largely absent in asserting itself on national security issues, particularly since 9/11. A new report lays out a path for change.
The role Foundation for the Defense of Democracies served as a messaging hub for a controversial taxpayer-funded project, has never been revealed until now.
Headlines tend to gravitate toward Russian, Iranian, and Chinese info ops, but those originating in Saudi Arabia and the UAE are just as harmful.
The European Parliament joined an international movement to protest the Saudi government’s gross human rights abuses.
Newly obtained documents confirm think tank’s involvement in a now cancelled State Dept project attacking opponents of Trump’s Iran policy.
As the conflict re-erupted in recent weeks, a complex web of lobbying on both sides has kicked into gear hoping to extract US support.
While the results show some despair about recent developments in the region, it offers some hope for a positive way forward.
As another US Census count begins to wrap up, Iranians Americans are once again grappling with what it means to purportedly be ‘white’ in America
US Iran envoy Elliott Abrams recently praised successes on getting Americans released, but the reality is that Trump officials only complicated the process.
The new group, Democracy for the Arab World Now, intends to carry on Jamal Khashoggi’s legacy of pushing for reform in the region.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz was in Washington this week asking for an upgrade to maintain Israel’s regional military edge.
Despite bipartisan efforts in Congress to withdraw US support for the Saudi-led coalition, the Trump administration continues to add fuel to Yemen’s fire.
Foreseeing a battle to re-engage Iran in a potential Biden administration, more than a dozen progressive groups sent a letter to Capitol Hill calling on House Democrats to dig in.
Most Americans are likely unaware that US combat operations have taken place not only in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, but also in 21 other nations since President George W. Bush announced a global war on terror.
Despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s denials, sale of the F-35 to the UAE appears to have been at least tangentially part of the recent Israel-UAE deal on normalizing relations.
If nothing else highlights the absurdity of the U.S. effort to “snapback” sanctions on Iran at the UN, it’s a quote from Mike Pompeo himself back in 2018.
Hawkish pro-Israel groups spent big trying to unseat Democratic candidates whom they viewed aren’t sufficiently supportive of Israel, and they lost big — perhaps marking a seismic shift in the domestic politics of U.S. Middle East policy.
The Saudis appear to be abandoning an agreement they made with the Bush administration that they would not pursue enrichment and reprocessing.
The fact that two of the three contenders for the top-spot on the committee opposed the Iran nuclear deal signals that there is a lot at stake.
Reps. Ro Khanna (D) and Andy Biggs (R) announced that when possible, they plan to travel to Seoul to meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.