The pontiff is right to express concern about the risks of accidental detonation and the employment of nuclear weapons. He’s just wrong on how best to increase the chances of preventing their employment.
Rebeccah HeinrichsDecember 4, 2019
Why wasn’t the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi “happier,” even as many Americans are grateful his evil has been restrained?
Rebeccah HeinrichsNovember 5, 2019
The US is employing just war considerations of proportionality and discrimination in the course of its employment of sanctions. That doesn’t mean there won’t be disheartening impacts on innocents. But we should be clear about who should receive the blame and insist, vigorously, that point is not lost.
Rebeccah HeinrichsSeptember 13, 2019
There is a wide gap between how most nuclear weapons scholars regard the weapons and their influence on deterrence and…
Rebeccah HeinrichsAugust 15, 2019
When we see those striking images of President Trump standing beside Kim Jong-un, we are not looking at a great American achievement. We are looking at a concession.
Rebeccah HeinrichsJuly 1, 2019
Even with a strong desire to grant mercy—truly undeserved mercy—Americans must energetically seek justice, even in warfare, lest we become like the enemies we seek to defeat: who are without America’s long tradition of rooting our laws in the laws of the God of the Bible.
Rebeccah HeinrichsJune 3, 2019
Rebeccah Heinrichs of the Hudson Institute sits down with Managing Editor Drew Griffin to discuss America’s foreign policy in the age of Donald Trump, China, Russia, and America’s moral leadership abroad.
Rebeccah HeinrichsApril 8, 2019
President Trump misunderstands the Soviet-Afghan War’s cause, the nature of the Soviets, and the rebel forces they were fighting. The Soviets were not “right to be there.” They invaded Afghanistan not to fight terrorists but to expand the communist empire.
Rebeccah HeinrichsJanuary 3, 2019
The Trump foreign policy is like the administration’s domestic policy: a little irreverent, ambitious, and completely impervious to experts’ warnings.
Rebeccah HeinrichsOctober 30, 2018
This week the Big Apple is hosting the UN General Assembly, and while world leaders will discuss many challenges, we expect a theme to dominate the US representatives’ views: sovereignty.
Rebeccah HeinrichsSeptember 25, 2018