Clifford D. May
Columns by Clifford D. May
America wins, media spins: Why liberal news outlets hate Trump’s success against Iran
President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth were hopping mad last week over attempts to minimize what they had achieved against the nuclear weapons facilities in Iran Published July 1, 2025
No more appeasement: Trump took out Iran’s nuclear crown jewel while others only talked
The uranium enrichment plant at Fordow was known as the jewel in the crown of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader. Published June 24, 2025
Roots of the Middle East conflict trace back centuries
In 1979, I spent several months in Iran covering what was then called the Iranian Revolution. Published June 17, 2025
What a Stalin statue in a subway station should tell Trump about Putin
A statue of Josef Stalin was recently unveiled in Moscow's Taganskaya subway station. Published June 10, 2025
A secular jihadi brings the intifada to Washington
Not so long ago, homicidal antisemitism in America was widely regarded as peculiar to neo-Nazis, White supremacists and other far-right extremists. Published May 27, 2025
What Qatar wants, Qatar gets
Lots of people have been duped by the Qataris. I was one of them. Published May 20, 2025
Trump halts the Indo-Pakistani conflict
President Trump has long been eager to stop armed conflicts. He succeeded last week, but with two asterisks. Published May 13, 2025
The Iran nuclear deal Trump wants
A fourth round of talks between Tehran's envoys and Steve Witkoff, President Trump's lead negotiator, did not occur in Rome over the weekend as expected. Published May 6, 2025
Putin only understands strength: Time for Trump to show it
A year ago, amid indications that Iran's rulers were preparing to launch a direct attack on Israel, President Biden publicly warned them: "Don't!" Published April 29, 2025
Truth matters: Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks now documented for history
The atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, were recorded by the terrorists themselves on their hip GoPro cameras, their mobile phones and even the phones of their victims. Published April 22, 2025
A ‘Reverse Kissinger’ would be a fool’s errand for Trump
You probably know what a reverse mortgage is because you've seen Tom Selleck selling them on television commercials, and you may recall what a reverse half-nelson is from high school gym class. Published April 15, 2025
Israel’s second War of Independence
It has been 18 months since Hamas' invasion of Israel and the barbaric pogrom that followed. Hamas is still holding and torturing hostages. Published April 8, 2025
Obama and Biden’s failed Russia policies
In 2008, Vladimir Putin's troops invaded neighboring Georgia and seized control of two regions. That chilled Russia's relations with the United States. Published March 25, 2025
Trump’s Ukraine diplomacy faces Putin test
First, President Trump muscled Volodymyr Zelenskyy into accepting, without guarantees, a 30-day ceasefire in the brutal war that Vladimir Putin has been waging against Ukraine. Published March 18, 2025
The clean energy revolution that never happened
Cast your mind back to Sept. 6, 2019, when candidate Joseph R. Biden took the hand of a 24-year-old activist. "Kiddo," he said, "look in my eyes. I guarantee you. I guarantee you. We're going to end fossil fuel." Published March 11, 2025
Getting the U.S. and Ukraine back on track
Vladimir Putin doesn't drink much, but I bet he poured himself a glass of Rossiyskoye Shampanskoye after watching relations between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump meltdown last Friday. Published March 4, 2025
Putin’s imperial playbook leaves no room for mystery
Churchill famously called Russia "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." Is the same true of Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia with an increasingly tight fist since 1999? Published February 25, 2025
Trump can halt Russia’s war against Ukraine
President Trump has begun to seriously turn his attention to Russia's war against Ukraine, which began three years ago Monday. Published February 18, 2025
Are Arab rulers with or against America?
More than 6 million Syrians fled their homeland during that country's almost 14-year-long civil war. Other nations took them in. It was the humanitarian thing to do. Published February 11, 2025
Defeating the Houthis
President Trump has re-designated the Houthi rebels of Yemen as a foreign terrorist organization. That they deserve the label is indisputable. Published February 4, 2025
