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So, there was a video going around where a guy interviewed a young woman from Ramallah, and the young woman said all sorts of truly horrible things like… She was glad about October 7th, that no Israeli is innocent—the common things that you hear people from Gaza say. But what was interesting was when they…

🚨 A new kind of terrorist threat: Once an AI can act on our behalf, a security breach becomes something more serious than someone stealing our data. An attacker may be able to use the AI to act as us. Imagine this scenario: An attacker infiltrates the White House computer system with agentic AI, coordinating…

Iran’s regional strategy is not confined to conventional diplomacy, missile forces, or overt military deployments. It also relies on a more ambiguous model of coercion: the use of Iranian-made capabilities, aligned armed organizations, dispersed command relationships, and public narratives that complicate the assignment of responsibility. This model is strategically valuable because it can permit force…

I strongly oppose the anti-Muslim rhetoric coming from some self-described ‘patriotic’ accounts. Now, they want to ban airport accommodations for ablution. Ablution stations provide a dedicated, hygienic space for travelers to perform wudu—which involves washing the hands, face, arms, and feet to prepare for prayer. The station prevents water from splashing onto bathroom floors and…

Foreign influence in the United States is frequently examined through covert operations: clandestine payments, hidden intermediaries, unauthorized leaks, fabricated accounts, or foreign intelligence direction. While such methods exist, they do not represent the primary or most durable channel through which foreign governments and political parties seek to shape American political debate. A substantial share of…

Introduction: The Invisible Infrastructure of Modern Political Influence One of the defining features of twenty-first-century political influence is that it increasingly operates without the traditional appearance of political organization. There may be no foreign embassy issuing instructions, no intelligence officer handing an activist a dossier, and no government ministry openly directing a protest. Influence instead…

Introduction: The Gang That Became a System For decades, the Mexican cartel problem was largely described as a problem of organized crime: violent gangs producing drugs, bribing officials, fighting over territory, and moving contraband across the U.S.-Mexico border. That description was never entirely wrong. It is simply no longer sufficient. The modern cartel is not…

The Incomplete Picture of Democracy Democracy is usually described as a system in which citizens choose their leaders through elections. That description is accurate, but it is incomplete. Citizens cannot make political choices without information. Before anyone votes, he or she must decide which candidates are trustworthy, which allegations are credible, which threats are real,…

Remember how a retired senior intelligence officer purportedly told reporter John Solomon that the intel community worked to delegitimize President Trump in 2016 and neutralize him in 2020? “Operation Round River” was a 2019-2020 counterintelligence effort that flagged Biden family Ukraine-related corruption evidence from informants as Russian disinformation. Declassified ODNI summaries and FBI records confirm…

The world is best understood as a contest of competing interests—states and movements advancing their power, security, and influence relative to rivals. That contest did not pause in 1945. The defeat of Nazi Germany removed one adversary and immediately opened another struggle, conducted through occupation, covert action, proxy forces, political subversion, and the shaping of…