Megan G. Oprea
The Federalist
Austin, TX, United States
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Angela Merkel Melts Under Pressure To Tighten Europe's Borders
Merkel is working frantically to stave off rebellion in her government over her de facto open borders immigration policies. → Read More
Erdogan Tightens His Grip On Turkey In Early Elections
The budding dictator has a large constituency that makes up about half of the country, which is for most part the country’s conservative Muslim population. → Read More
Trump Was Right To Cancel The North Korea Summit
By walking away from talks with North Korea, Trump managed to do exactly what President Obama failed to do during the Iran negotiations. → Read More
Republicans Need A Foreign Policy That's Neither Isolationist Nor Hawkish
The GOP has struggled to define its foreign policy views, waffling between neoconservatism and anti-interventionism. But we need a third way. → Read More
Trump Is Making Obama’s Mistake In Syria: Putting His Hopes in Russia
Don’t hold your breath waiting for the Syrian ceasefire to culminate in some sort of peaceful resolution, or even last. We’ve been down this road before. → Read More
What Dangers Lie Ahead For Trump’s Red Line For Syria
The Trump administration appears to be throwing down the gauntlet not just to Syria, but also to its allies Russia and Iran. → Read More
We Have To Take Russia's Provocations In Eastern Europe Seriously
While everyone has focused on Russia's meddling into last year's presidential election, other blatant acts of Russian aggression have gone unnoticed. → Read More
New Kind Of Terror In London Sees Potential Vigilante Attacking Muslims
The mosque attack does suggest that Britain is at a dangerous boiling point and that the violence is now coming from both sides of the spectrum. → Read More
Manchester Bombing Foreshadows Another Fraught Ramadan
The Manchester bombing is a stunning reminder that, despite ISIS losing territory, its appeal isn’t totally lost on young Muslims living in the West. → Read More
Trump Tells Muslim World To Stop Enabling Terrorism
President Trump wants to make it clear that it’s the Muslim world, not the United States, that must lead the way in pushing back against Islamism. → Read More
Vox Voxplains Radical Islam As No Threat To Americans Or The West
Will Wilkinson at Vox insists there are no reasonable arguments to be made that radical Islam poses any threat to the United States or Western civilization. → Read More
How The Champs-Élysées Attack Affects The French Presidential Election
If Islamists want to keep Muslims from integrating into French society and encourage them to resist through violence, Marine Le Pen in power would help. → Read More
Election Results Likely To Accelerate Turkey's Authoritarianism
Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party are hailing the victory as a clear mandate from Turkey's people, despite winning by a razor-thin margin. → Read More
Meet The Men Who Fought Hitler
Giles Milton's new book, 'Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare' tells the story of a cunning band of saboteurs that helped defeat Hitler. → Read More
'Homeland' Actor: The Real 'Guilty Ones' This Season Are White Men
‘Homeland’ has taken such a sudden turn toward political preaching that its story and characters barely resemble those of the previous five seasons. → Read More
If Syrians Want To Stop Assad’s Chemical Weapons, They Must Do It
Both President Trump and the United Nations appear unlikely to take any significant steps toward ending Bashar al Assad’s reign of terror. → Read More
European Leaders Nervously Insist EU Is ‘Undivided And Indivisible’
The ‘unity summit’ in Rome was aimed at more than commemorating the EU’s 60th anniversary. Member states used the occasion to try to reenergize its mission. → Read More
Despite Far-Right Loss In Netherlands, Nationalism Isn’t Going Anywhere
The rise of Geert Wilders and his Netherlands party, despite their election loss, shows how influential populism has become in Europe. It's here to stay. → Read More
ISIS Is Retreating In Syria And Iraq, But It’s Nowhere Near Over
As ISIS loses ground in Syria and Iraq, there is increasing concern that militants will flee to nearby countries and terror cells to regroup. → Read More
What The Arab Spring Can Teach Us About America's Populist Revolution
A new book on the Arab Spring and its 'Rage for Order' suggests some discomfiting lessons for those who think America is immune to dictatorships and dangerous populist revolts. → Read More