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2 weeks ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Beth Bailey
In a large ballroom in Williamsburg, Virginia, representatives from around the nation gathered to talk about revolution. With the 250th anniversary of our nation’s battle for independence soon to commence, planners of the American Revolution 250 Commission were discussing how to reignite common cause in Americans through the mechanism of our fight for nationhood. It would be no mean feat.
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3 weeks ago | 
reason.com | Beth Bailey
Refugees But volunteers are stepping up even as Congress fails to act.
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3 weeks ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Beth Bailey
When I settled into my plush theater seat to view Warfare on its opening weekend, I had done no research about the film. I anticipated the standard Global War on Terrorism fare: good guys and bad ones in an epic struggle watered down for the palates of Americans desperate for a denouement, and maybe a sappy love story for good measure. I have never been so grateful to be disappointed, even as the film kept me pinned to my seat, alternating between terror and tears for 95 nerve-wracking minutes.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Beth Bailey
While a U.S. delegation traveled to Kabul to secure the release of U.S. citizens in Taliban custody, Afghanistan‘s de facto government requested long-awaited recognition from its American counterparts. Ariana News reported last week that the Taliban delegates asked U.S. representatives to hand over the Afghan Embassy in Washington, D.C., and to reopen the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
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1 month ago | 
reason.com | Beth Bailey
Afghanistan Afghan legal professionals face deadly threats, but a federal injunction and a last-minute boarding letter helped one family escape. Thousands more remain in limbo.
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2 months ago | 
reason.com | Beth Bailey
Immigration A former Afghan intelligence officer who worked alongside U.S. forces sought safety in America. Now, under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, his parole has been revoked, and he’s been detained without explanation.
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2 months ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Beth Bailey
Hours after the heavily propagandized return of the bodies of four Israeli hostages, officials released findings that fully unmask the hate and callousness of Hamas and the Islamic terror groups who perpetrated the attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. Three of the four bodies were said to belong to Shiri, Kfir, and Ariel Bibas, the wife and two sons of recently returned hostage Yarden Bibas. The Bibas family was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7, with Yarden taken separately from his family.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Beth Bailey
On Jan. 21, the outgoing Biden administration and Trump administration secured the release of Americans Ryan Corbett and William Wallace McKenty from Taliban detention in exchange for Afghan Khan Mohammad, incarcerated on drug and terrorism charges in the United States. Little is known of McKenty, age 69, as his family has “requested privacy.” Previously, the State Department had not included him in its tally of Americans in Taliban custody.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Beth Bailey
In the 14 months since Hamas killed 1,200 people and kidnapped 254 hostages during its Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack against Israel, evidence of Western aid dollars enriching terrorist organizations and operatives in Gaza has grown. The United Nations and donor countries have been slow to accept this evidence or make changes to their operational partners and methods. On Dec.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Beth Bailey
The national outrage has simmered after Chicago officials waited five days to confirm that 22-year-old Mauritanian national Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi’s target in an Oct. 26 shooting in the West Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago was an Orthodox Jewish man wearing a kippah. Even when officials noted that Abdallahi intentionally sought Jewish victims while announcing hate crime and terrorism charges against him on Oct. 31, they left out another key detail about the attacker.
