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Some Republican leaders have compared the war in Iraq with President Thomas Jefferson's historic confrontation with the Barbary pirates. But the whole story does not necessarily serve the Republican ...

On this episode of American Prestige, Abby Mullen on American geopolitics in their infancy. Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the ...

A small but dangerous group of Islamic extremists, operating out of the shadows of brutal dictatorships and striking out at the international community. Multiple undeclared wars over more than a ...

We have met the new Barbary pirates. And they are us. We fought twin wars against the original Barbary pirates in the early 1800s, only to become their look-a-like. On Dec. 10, the United States ...

Shortly after America had achieved its independence from Great Britain, the new nation confronted a threat from the Ottoman provinces of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Beginning in 1784, raiders from ...

THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE TRIPOLI PIRATES. By Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger. Sentinel. 238 pages. $27.95. Brian Kilmeade’s and Don Yaeger’s “Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates” dramatically ...

When the Revolutionary War came to a close, the United States spent nearly a decade without a regular navy. With the war against Great Britain won, the reasoning went, why would it need one? The ...

As a fan of The Editors podcast, my ears perked up in the last episode’s tussle between Rich Lowry and Charlie Cooke over the U.S. strike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. I had argued on ...

This is the full text of the chain email received by PolitiFact about the Barbary pirates and Islam. To read our fact check of this email -- which we rated False ...

A Trade Deal Without Teeth Isn’t Worth the Paper It’s Printed On Brightline Touches the Third Rail JD Vance Should Take the Moon Shot Time to Spring Trump’s Tariff Trap The High Costs of Forever QE ...

In 1805, a ragtag force of eight United States Marines led by Lt. Presley O'Bannon, along with 500 mercenaries under the command of Army veteran William Eaton, marched across the Sahara Desert. Their ...