By Todd Bensman as published in The Daily Signal As America prepares to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, expect a bright, glaring omission in the upcoming speeches, editorials, and televised survivor retrospectives about this history, important to tell for its warning that national vigilance remains necessary even now. Left on the cutting room floors will be the all-important, basic “why,” exactly, … [Read More...] about On 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks, Many Will Cut the Most Relevant Truth From National Memory: Islamist Ideology Still Motivates Mass Murder
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Securing America’s Borders
How the Drug Lords Learned Drone War in Ukraine
The threat to American personnel in Latin America and what to do about In June 2025, an alarming allegation surfaced in European news outlets: that cartel “volunteers” from Mexico and Colombia had infiltrated the Ukrainian military – considered the world’s “drone superpower” – to learn its dark arts of cutting-edge drone … [Read more...] about How the Drug Lords Learned Drone War in Ukraine
Terrorism and Homeland Security
Hezbollah Suspect in Forgotten ’94 Panama Suicide Bombing in Custody; Trial Could Inform U.S. of Fresh Backyard Threats
By Todd Bensman for The Heritage Foundation For more than three decades, the mystery of who blew Alas Chiricanas Flight 901 out of the Panama sky, killing all 21 aboard including 12 top Jewish business leaders and three U.S. citizens, remained unsolved and mostly forgotten by the outside world. The small commuter plane to Panama … [Read more...] about Hezbollah Suspect in Forgotten ’94 Panama Suicide Bombing in Custody; Trial Could Inform U.S. of Fresh Backyard Threats
DISPATCHES FROM A BORDER IN HISTORIC CRISIS
Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History 2021-2025
In a series of written and video reports from both sides from the US-Mexico border during 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 Todd Bensman explores the causes, consequences, and experience of the mass-migration crisis he was first to predict in a November 2020 column titled "Will We See a 'Biden Effect' at the Border?" The crisis began several months before the 2020 presidential election, when … [Read more...] about Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History 2021-2025
Dispatches From Europe’s New Mass Migration Crisis: What America Can Learn
From November 22 through December 22 of 2023, Bensman traveled extensively throughout Central Europe and the Balkan nations as a Visiting Fellow for the Budapest-based Mathias Corvinus Collegium's' Migration Research Institute. He traveled to Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, and Greece. The reason? Big human traffic was swelling again on the so-called "Balkan … [Read more...] about Dispatches From Europe’s New Mass Migration Crisis: What America Can Learn