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The Trump administration is using Humpty Dumpty rules to justify its new tariffs.
President Trump’s decision to hit the Houthis toward the goal of fully freeing the Red Sea to shipping again was fundamentally American.
None of the mechanisms the president is using to push his agenda were put in place by conservatives for leverage against progressive institutions.
Michelle Wu's obsessive defense of illegal immigrant criminals is still in line with much of her party, and its a near-theological commitment to the...
The great 19th-century strategist and navalist Alfred Thayer Mahan would be shocked and mystified that we have allowed the country with which we are...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a cartoon version of the Democratic Party that the GOP would love to run against — and Democrats say she embodies their...
The agitation is meant to exact a price on Musk for DOGE and get him to abandon the effort: No one wants to buy an expensive vehicle and then become a...
The madman theory has much to recommend it when dealing with Hamas or the Houthis — but no one heretofore has thought it has similar benefits when...
Judge Amir Ali has no authority over the conduct of US foreign policy, but that's not stopping him in his escalating conflict with the Trump...
It’s no disrespect to speakers of, say, Tagalog to enforce English as our predominant language — and not learning it excludes them from the...
The furious reaction to Jeff Bezos reveals the left’s intolerance of any dissenting news source — but his changes will make the legacy media less...
President Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, have outraged the Beltway by dismissing top generals, including Chairman of the Joint...
Serious countries need serious militaries, but Europe has preferred to spend on everything else while relying on the might of the United States for...
Fashionable progressive ideas that have long been ascendant, including DEI and gender ideology, have received hammer blows since Trump’s...
Democrats have finally found someone they hate more than Donald Trump.
Right now Marco Rubio has the easiest job in the world: President Trump is throwing his weight around in our hemisphere in a way we haven’t seen in...
The leftist logic is that it’s racist to keep out non-white illegal immigrants, racist to make them go — and racist to have a country that takes...
Donald Trump is practicing not deterrence but 'compellence,' making a threat to coerce foreign actors into doing things we want.
We’re only days into the Trump administration, and we can already identify one of his top five achievements.
How did a Democratic Party that has long prided itself on its hipness lose the culture fight to Donald J. Trump? Voters concluded that he made more...
In 1942, the Nazi apparatchik Otto Dietrich sniffed, “America never contributed anything to world civilization but chewing gum and Coca-Cola.”
Los Angeles for years has been in the grips of a bizarre obsession with recruiting more women firefighters, as if gender diversity somehow makes it...
To understand the world, and to a large extent the behavior of nations, you need to look at a map — which is why Donald Trump is talking up...
Rarely has there been a more concerted effort by a country’s leadership to eliminate a source of national strength than the Biden administration’s...
The hope for the playoffs is that you’d have some March Madness–type drama. Instead, every weak team you’d expect to lose has lost (small sample...
It never made any sense to take down Speaker Mike Johnson, and after some dramatic arm-twisting to bring back a couple of defectors, Johnson got...
I have a piece up on the home page on the tension between Elon Musk (pro) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (basically anti) on obesity drugs. I really...
I’m a sucker for almost any sports phenomenon, so count me emphatically in on the Pop Tarts bowl. It is not quite the granddaddy of them all, but...
Over Christmas, Elon Musk and his tech allies started a yeasty intra-MAGA debate over recruiting top immigrant talent to the United States and the...
Anybody who hasn’t been under a rock is aware of the battle that has taken place the last several of days over legal immigration and H1B visas,...