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Last year, three defense department officials were marched out of the Pentagon under the shadow of the accusation that they were leaking classified...
I’ve been very critical generally of Europe in its reactions and relations to the Trump administration. I thought that the cumulative effect of...
Christopher Caldwell has been just about the most perspicacious writer about Donald Trump, the phenomenon since 2015. So it is notable that in his...
Rich Lowry has argued sensibly that, no, in fact, we did not go to war with Iran for Israel. “Trump runs U.S. foreign policy,” our fearless...
Trump defined victory by redefining “unconditional surrender” to mean his assessment of whether we’ve destroyed Iran’s navy, its ability to...
Mayor Mamdani was surprised to face a question from reporters yesterday asking whether he favored the unification of Northern Ireland with the...
The last 92 hereditary peers are being removed from the House of Lords according to the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill. I should perhaps dance...
The New York Times science section has a delightful story on a comprehensive new study on why cats land on their feet. This is something humans have...
This little sign-off of Lindsey Graham’s is so weird. GRAHAM tonight to Hannity: “God bless Israel. We should move all our stuff to Israel.”...
Ahead of the annual Saint Patrick’s Day gab fest, in which the head of the Irish state gets face time with the leader of the free world, Irish...
John Guida of the New York Times opinion page interviewed me late last week to discuss the war in Iran, and what counts as America First foreign...
Here’s the headline from the Financial Times: Ukraine is under pressure to let the EU inspect a damaged pipeline carrying Russian oil to Hungary and...
Kelly Grieco of the Stimson Center points out how quickly we would blow through half of our THAAD system with SM-3 interceptors if we deployed them to...
Are we keeping this just to air power? If not, will Congress get involved? If Jim and others are right that Trump has set the bar at regime change,...
My colleagues are calling it war. I'm not sure. Does one announce a war at 3 a.m. on a Saturday in a Truth Social post? Aren't conservatives...
Man, there is nothing like a simple, clever country heartbreak song. Last year, for me it was Charley Crockett’s “Odessa.” And this winter I...
Earlier this week, the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, maker of the extremely popular Claude AI products, put out a letter saying that Anthropic...
Earlier this week, Jim Geraghty reflected on the state of the war in Ukraine after four years. He writes: What I can’t understand is Americans who...
Oren Cass has a rip-roaring critique of the drift of the current administration toward legalizing, expanding, or removing guardrails from around the...
The U.K. government has said it will not give the assisted dying bill any further debate time in the House of Lords, meaning that the parliamentary...
Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter and head of Block.xyz (owner of payment platforms like Square), has announced that he is firing 40 percent of his...
It’s interesting to see so many Catholic dioceses around the world reporting booms in conversion. France expects more than 10,384 adult catechumens...
I just don’t see it. All the doomerism about AI seems nuts to me, as I think these LLMs (Large Language Models) and what they are capable of doing...
Well, the first spring training games have debuted the new pitch-challenge protocol for baseball, in which players or coaches can challenge and ask...
In January the French Senate rejected the “aide à mourir” (aid in dying) bill that was passed by the National Assembly in 2025 as part of...
I’ve been scandalized watching the initial coverage of the Munich Security Conference, which continued last year’s absolute European freak-out on...