PRESS ROOM

The Senate’s failure to override President Trump’s veto of its effort to end U.S. military support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen is not the end of the story...

“This drawing closer of the brutal monarchies of Saudi Arabia and the UAE alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration is bad news for anybody who’s concerned about communities in the Middle East being able to chart their own democratic paths forward.”

Not long after Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were sworn into Congress, they began hearing from their new colleagues that one member of the House Democratic caucus, Josh Gottheimer, had particularly strong views about each of them. Gottheimer, a second-term representative from New Jersey, has deep ties to the lobbies for Saudi Arabia and Israel, while Tlaib and Omar are often critical of both Mideast governments...

The next time a president, a general, a secretary of defense, or a hawkish member of Congress insists that the U.S. military is woefully underfunded, think twice. A careful look at U.S. defense expenditures offers a healthy corrective to such wildly inaccurate claims...

In this episode, Ms. Cobban interviews Ben Freeman of the Center for International Policy, to discuss the extensive influence operations undertaken in Washington by the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Israel...

Every year since 1981, the nonprofit White House Historical Association has released an official Christmas ornament — usually in honor of a U.S. president...

In this article on on escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran, Sunjeev Bery, director of Freedom Forward, advocates that the U.S. would be better off if it focused its attention on cutting ties with the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Although Patrick Shanahan was cleared of lobbying directly for Boeing, as Secretary of Defense he will be making policy decisions that will impact on the fortunes of his former company...

Each year, Congress approves hundreds of billions of dollars for the US defense budget—but the real number exceeds $1 trillion...

‘It’s more than just an economic decision,’ one analyst says. It’s a part of a broad campaign to sway opinion in the United States. Look out below...

Whereas the Times’ reporters credited Haspel with the “skills of a spy,” the CIA operative explained that it was “not spycraft (sic); it’s professionalism.” The one thing that the Times and the letter writer have in common is the purveying of bullshit...

The 2020 presidential race is already well underway, but there is one huge policy and budgetary concern that has yet to rise on the agenda of items deserving a thorough debate: spending on war and preparation for war...