Judith Miller

Neither history nor evil ended with the disappearance of the wall or the Soviet Union. Twenty years after the wall came down, the West has more history to make.

The president offers a curtain-raiser on his national security policy. But we’re still left to wonder what constitutes success in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In five days of fighting, the Marines are avoiding earlier mistakes and making impressive advances.

The slaughter in Syria began with children -- and continues with them. A new report from UNICEF states that one in ten Syrian children – over 1.2 million – have become refugees in neighboring Arab countries.

If you are seeking an example of bias in the media’s coverage of what journalists are calling the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian “violence,” consider the case of Ahmad Manasra. In an angry speech on Wednesday night, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, appealed for calm but accused Israeli security forces of killing Palestinian boys “in cold blood,” singling out the 13-year-old Manasra as one of the Palestinian youths Israel had “executed.” The Palestinian press, and even some Ame…

Hillary Clinton. Angela Merkel of Germany. And now Theresa May of Britain. Women rule, or soon may, three of the world’s most influential democracies. They are not alone. Christine Lagarde, of France, heads the powerful International Monetary Fund, responsible for assuring the stability of the international financial system. In Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, is a rising star. The first minister of Northern Ireland is a woman. So is the leader, and former leader, of Britain…

Russia’s agenda should appear clear by now. But the U.S. intelligence community is apparently divided...

Rep. Devin Nunes thinks the press is dead, or brain-dead, at least.

What surprised Washington foreign policy and political gurus was not Rex Tillerson’s dismissal as secretary of state, which had been rumored for months, but how it was done.

Trump didn’t make a deal with North Korea, but no deal is better than a bad deal. And Michael Cohen told Congress he had no evidence of Russian collusion.

Former Indiana Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, who died at 87 on Sunday of a rare neurological disorder, never got to be president, though he made a run for the job in 1996.

The president’s announcement was intended to underscore the highly questionable benefits of his isolationist “America First” approach to foreign policy and his determination to end America’s “endless wars” in the Middle East.

Biden took two important actions last week on Saudi Arabia and Syria that highlight not only his goals for the region but also his red lines.

The president blamed everyone but himself and his administration for the catastrophe in Afghanistan.

There is a slow moving 9/11 developing here in Ukraine, a threat that if mishandled could produce death and destruction equal to or greater than what the United States endured, and the world witnessed in horrified shock and disbelief twenty years ago.

President Biden should have used the State of the Union address to speak directly to one of the few parties that can stop the horrendous slaughter of Ukrainians – the Russian people.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy understands the reality: if the war continues to descend into what New York Times columnist Tom Friedman calls a “somewhat boring slog,” Ukraine will lose.

Editor’s note: The following column was first published in City Journal. Israelis are calling it “our 9/11.” The parallels are all too chilling, as Americans, especially New Yorkers, know well. But the devastation for Israel is proportionately even higher than it was for Americans. Adjusted for population, 700 murdered Israelis-the current estimate-would be the equivalent of 21,000 dead Americans. And now the Israeli-Hamas conflict risks widening. Two days after some 1,000 Hamas militants struck…

Editor’s note: The following column was first published in City Journal. Since Hamas’s barbaric attack on Israel, Hassan Nasrallah, the long-standing head of Hezbollah, Iran’s terrorist proxy in Lebanon and the country’s de facto ruler, has been uncharacteristically quiet. While Iran has warned that it will respond if Israel invades Gaza and kills Palestinians, no such threat has come from Nasrallah. His silence has intensified a debate among Middle East analysts about whether Hezbollah, and, m…

Editor’s note: The following column was first published in City Journal. Hamas seems to have made two fundamental miscalculations in staging its barbaric October 7 attack on Israel. First, its leadership clearly assumed that the United States would not continue to support Israel if it killed enough of the Palestinians whom Hamas has been using as human shields to protect its command centers and underground tunnel networks in Gaza. Second, Hamas apparently assumed that if enough Palestinians in G…