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Knowingly or not, President Donald Trump, in his decision to attack Iran, has embarked on a foreign policy that has been, on and off, both persistent...
You have to be awfully smart to believe something this stupid. In a Manhattan Institute survey of Democratic voters, 46 percent said they believed it...
Hypocrisy was triumphant, as it usually is in arguments over redistricting, in Virginia this week, as voters approved a "fairness"...
What's the big deal about Hungary? It's a central European country with 9.5 million people — slightly less in population and area than the...
Will the U.S.-Iran war turn out to have been the 39-day war, following the locution of the 12-day Israel-Iran war of June 2025? The markets, as this...
Will the U.S.–Iran war turn out to have been the 39-day war, following the locution of the Israel-Iran 12-day war of June 2025? The markets, as this...
"White House deploys Marco Rubio to clarify messaging about Iran conflict." So reads the headline on the front page of the Washington...
“White House deploys Marco Rubio to clarify messaging about Iran conflict.” So reads the headline on the front page of the Washington Examiner’s...
Former President Barack Obama liked to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s line that "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it...
Former President Barack Obama liked to quote the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s line that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends...
Four years and 25 days. Twenty days. There's a huge difference between those two numbers. The first number — 1,486 days altogether — is the...
Four years and 24 days. Nineteen days. There’s a huge difference between those two numbers. The first numbers — 1,485 days altogether — is the...
As Donald Trump’s Republicans look askance as he launches what looks to some like another long-term war in the Middle East, and as the anti-Trump...
History doesn't always repeat itself, or even rhyme. People sometimes learn from experience, their own or others'. Example: Woodrow Wilson,...
History doesn’t always repeat itself, or even rhyme. People sometimes learn from experience, their own or others’. Example: President Woodrow...
So much for the notion that the Supreme Court, with its 6-3 majority of justices appointed by Republican presidents, was going to be a rubber stamp...
My first reaction to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech, delivered on Valentine’s Day, at the Munich Security Conference, was, “Last year,...
About a month late, presumably due to last fall’s government shutdown, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the populations of the 50...
Think about it. Heads of government do not normally reveal the texts of private communications from other heads of state. Yet that is what...
Minnesota? Somalis? Nine billion dollars in alleged welfare fraud? To understand what’s going on from a distance, it helps to understand basic...
It’s been a cold winter so far in the Midwest and much of the Northeast, early-in-the-season snow even in Washington, D.C., and temperatures falling...
Whence cometh the conviction, in America and even more in Britain and Europe, that open borders is the only moral immigration policy? Of course,...
Virginia and New Jersey, the two states that voted for governor in 2025, both voted for then-Vice President Kamala Harris over then-candidate Donald...
Who said this? “If you don’t have any borders, you don’t have a nation.” The speaker went on, “Trump did a better job. I don’t... Read...