Ben Cohen

1 week ago | therecord.com | Ben Spurr |Ben Cohen

John Tory is weighing a political comeback, and insiders expect him to decide by the end of this summer whether he will run for mayor of Toronto again in 2026, according to multiple sources. Next year’s Oct. 26 municipal election is more than 16 months away but, behind the scenes, potential candidates and their backers are already having discussions about how the race is shaping up.

1 week ago | fdd.org | Elizabeth Robbins |Ben Cohen

Iran’s nuclear weapons strategy lies in tatters in the wake of this week’s extensive, and ongoing, targeted Israeli strikes. Ever since the Islamic Regime’s clandestine program to obtain a nuclear weapon was first exposed almost a quarter century ago, the ruling mullahs have pushed the fiction that their ambitions are exclusively peaceful. At the same time, they led the United States, Europe, and the International Atomic Energy Agency down a path of obfuscation and outright lies. No more.

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Ben Cohen

You never want to get an email about a product recall. But you really don’t want to get that email when it’s the start of summer and the recalled product is your air conditioner—and especially not when the email includes two words that recently appeared in millions of inboxes. Mold exposure. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

2 weeks ago | fdd.org | Reagan Easter |Ben Cohen

It’s been more than 20 years since I moved with my family from London to New York City. There were many reasons why we traversed the pond, with job opportunities and the chance of a new life in America at the top of the list, but there were also some deeply personal considerations involved as well. Much as I loved London, and still do, I found myself increasingly anxious at the thought of bringing up two Jewish boys in the city of my birth.

2 weeks ago | fdd.org | Elizabeth Robbins |Ben Cohen |Ahmad Sharawi

The Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Islamist movement dedicated to the remaking of society and government according to the dictates of Islamic law, or sharia. Founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, an Egyptian schoolteacher who famously asserted that “Islam is the solution,” the Brotherhood quickly became influential among Egypt’s poor by providing educational and health services alongside a steady diet of Islamist teachings.