Tag: ISIS

President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande pay their respects at the memorial outside the Bataclan in Paris on November 30. (SIPA via AP)

GOP banks on failed Islamic State policy for 2016

Nicole Duran · December 14, 2015 5:01 am

The program to prepare Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State has been dubbed a failure by analysts and lawmakers alike. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

National Security

Why the soldier-training program in Syria failed

Jacqueline Klimas · December 13, 2015 5:01 am

Young women today are complacent on the abortion issue, Debbie Wasserman Schultz argues, because their "entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided." (AP Photo)

Democratic Party resolution condemns GOP’s ‘anti-Muslim rhetoric’

Eddie Scarry · December 12, 2015 8:25 pm

"Prejudice and discrimination helps ISIL, and it undermines our national security," said President Obama. (AP Photo)

Obama: ‘Prejudice and discrimination helps’ the Islamic State

Curt Mills · December 12, 2015 4:16 pm

President Obama announced no significant shift in U.S. strategy and offered no new policy prescriptions for defeating the Islamic State. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP

Washington Secrets

Zogby Report Card: Obama would barely beat Trump in an election

Paul Bedard · December 12, 2015 12:00 pm

Rubio: Obama ‘made things worse’ after San Bernardino

Anna Giaritelli · December 12, 2015 3:14 am

The New York Times reported this week that Ash Carter had used his personal email on his iPhone for administrative work tasks for a few months. (AP Photo)

Obama visits Pentagon Monday to discuss Islamic State

Jacqueline Klimas · December 11, 2015 10:50 pm

In his latest piece for the Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer wrote that Donald Trump's outlandish claims throughout his campaign have turned the GOP side of the race for the White House into "absurdities" and "impossibilities." (AP Photo)

Krauthammer: Trump ‘wiped out’ chance for Hillary ‘takedown’

Eddie Scarry · December 11, 2015 10:07 pm

Noonan said as a matter of patriotism, the GOP front-runner should refine his language. (Screengrab)

Peggy Noonan: Trump ‘owes it to his country to become disciplined’

Eddie Scarry · December 11, 2015 6:05 pm

How Corbyn Wins

Andrew Stuttaford · December 11, 2015 5:23 am

End of the West?

Reuel Marc Gerecht · December 11, 2015 5:23 am

Contained

Michael Ramirez · December 11, 2015 5:23 am