Trump can’t let Ukraine be his Afghanistan
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to bring a swift end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict in his second term, but it remains unclear what exactly he means to do. His Cabinet appointees are an...
View ArticleThe empathy hoarders
In 2020, political writers who favored Joe Biden seemed to all coalesce on the same word: empathy. Time magazine ran a big story about “Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the Importance of Empathy.” The...
View ArticleThe president-elect’s relationship with the legal system will play a decisive...
President-elect Donald Trump's fraught, tempestuous, yet ultimately empowering relationship with the legal system has defined his political career. It dominated his first term, continued to play a...
View ArticleThe swift sword of DOGE: The toughest, yet most important, assignment
It’s not often that champions of a smaller federal government cheer the creation of a new department. But the Department of Government Efficiency isn’t like the Department of Motor Vehicles. It will...
View ArticleTrump to inherit a Pentagon budget Republicans worry is not up to the task of...
On Dec. 10, a medium-range ballistic missile was tracked by a new U.S. radar as it streaked toward the Pacific island of Guam, home to America’s Andersen Air Force Base and 26,000 U.S. troops. The...
View ArticleMidterm math: Congressional GOP will back Trump or lose
Midterm math may mean that Republicans in Congress must help President-elect Donald Trump succeed — or lose power themselves. That’s because, if history is any guide, the congressional GOP should...
View ArticleFoul-mouthed Milei shows libertarians the way
Last year, the Economist warned that "Javier Milei would be a danger for democracy in Argentina" on the eve of his election. Twelve months on, that global voice of "Sensible Centrism" has changed its...
View ArticleCNN is about to pay for its bias
CNN suffered a huge setback in a Florida court on Dec. 9 when a state judge denied the network’s efforts to dismiss a case against a Navy veteran who helped civilians flee the country in the final...
View ArticleThe whole world loves the US health system even if they don’t know it
When police arrested Luigi Mangione, the Ivy-educated scion of a Baltimore country club empire, for allegedly murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the Senate's populist standard-bearer did...
View ArticleTrump tempers expectations with less than 40 days until inauguration
"Promises made, promises kept" was a mantra of President-elect Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, but now Trump is managing expectations as he transitions from candidate to president. From consumer prices...
View ArticleBiden administration announces new policy initiative to tackle Islamophobia
The Biden administration announced a new social initiative on Thursday tasked with eliminating Islamophobia and discrimination against people of Arabic ethnicity. The “U.S. National Strategy to...
View ArticleNo risk, no rewards for America
A senior federal employee lamented to me recently about work fights he has with lawyers. It would be bad enough if these pitted him against attorneys launching lawsuits against his department, but...
View ArticleConservatives we lost in 2024
It’s a bit of a strange year for lamentations. Conservatives are generally bullish over the election results, and the most prominent deaths of the year are ones that are perhaps more causes of...
View ArticleTariffs, crypto, and interest rates set to dominate 2025 economic agenda
This new year will be a big one in the world of economic policy. Here is what to expect as the calendar turns to 2025 — and likely supercharged once President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan....
View ArticleWhat’s inside Stanley Tucci
Though Stanley Tucci is a Hollywood A-lister, starring alongside Ralph Fiennes in this year’s Oscar-contending Conclave, for instance, and in crowd pleasers such as the Hunger Games films, he has...
View ArticleHorowitz Jan. 6 report discredits theories about Ray Epps
An inspector general report revealed on Thursday that no FBI sources who were at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot ever faced charges, further debunking a widespread conspiracy theory about Ray Epps, who was...
View ArticleWATCH: Pennsylvania inmates say Luigi Mangione’s conditions...
Inmates at the State Correctional Institution Huntingdon in Pennsylvania said the conditions of Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, "suck." "Luigi's...
View ArticleYoungkin sends warning shot to Virginia cities considering sanctuary...
Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) says areas in his state that consider instituting sanctuary city policies should lose their state funding. The governor is seeking legislative approval for a policy that...
View ArticleTrump promises to eliminate ‘inconvenient’ and...
President-elect Donald Trump unveiled a new priority for his administration, promising to end daylight saving time in his second term. He made the announcement in a post on Truth Social, dismissing...
View ArticleFrom Europe to the Mediterranean, Moscow and Tehran form one axis of aggression
Weakness breeds aggression, and like the tottering international system represented by the League of Nations after World War I, today’s world order, grounded on the Pax Americana and the maritime...
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