DeSantis sets Trump’s hair on fire
Donald Trump faces legal jeopardy about payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, but his Republican opponents face political jeopardy about…
Victimhood and mudslinging now define American politics
The 2024 campaign has hardly started, but the air is already filled with noxious fumes, most of it from desperate…
Putin’s inhumane war strategy is backfiring
The war in Ukraine changed fundamentally after Vladimir Putin failed to capture Kyiv and decapitate the regime there a year…
The ever-shifting excuses about Hunter Biden’s laptop
Hunter Biden’s defense about his incriminating laptop sounds like an old joke about a trial lawyer who was accused of…
The think tank implicated by Biden’s classified documents
Joe Biden has become the Typhoid Mary of classified documents, spreading them as he goes. They keep turning up in…
What you need to know about Biden’s documents caper
We are still in the early stages of discovering what the documents discovered in Joe Biden’s office at the University…
Losing Crimea would condemn Putin
As the fighting in Ukraine slows for the winter, three things stand out. The first is the most obvious: a small,…
Zelensky’s Congress address was a triumph
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night was a political triumph. It was…
The ‘Twitter Files’ are damning for US agencies
There are two pieces of deeply disturbing news to emerge from the ‘Twitter Files’ released by Elon Musk. The first…
Did US officials suppress political speech on Twitter?
The ‘Twitter files’ Elon Musk released to two journalists have produced a cloud of confusion. So far, we have not…
Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter files’ demand answers from the government
The “Twitter files” Elon Musk released to two journalists have produced a cloud of confusion. So far, we have not…
Why America’s future is still bright
‘There is a lot of ruin in a nation.’ So said Adam Smith over two centuries ago. He reminds us…
Why we should still be optimistic about America
“There is a lot of ruin in a nation.” So said Adam Smith over two centuries ago. He reminds us…
Trump’s pox upon his party
Donald Trump has some well-proven abilities – the ability to cost Republicans winnable elections for the House and Senate, the…
Manchin’s rebuke shows how toxic Biden’s energy views are
It’s not often that a senator launches a brutal, frontal assault on a president from his own party. It’s even…
Ukraine turns the tables on Russia
Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine has moved into a new phase, a very encouraging one for Ukraine and its western…
Biden is the emperor with no clothes
The emperor is naked. The public knows it, and they’re finally beginning to speak the obvious truth. The emperor, in…
Is Ukraine going to win?
The climactic battle for Ukraine is being fought in the east, on the dangerous, open terrain of the Donbas. Since…
Just how long can Russia sustain the war in Ukraine?
The sheer complexity of the war in Ukraine can mask its most important features. So let’s cut through the complexity…
Will Ron DeSantis run against Donald Trump?
Last week, Florida governor Ron DeSantis took two big steps to solidify his popularity with the Republican base, not only…
The shameful silence about the Hunter Biden laptop story
Well over a year after the presidential election, long after all mainstream media outlets killed a legitimate story about Hunter…
Russia’s war on Ukraine: the lessons so far
The sheer complexity – and horror – of Russia’s war on Ukraine makes it difficult to distil the essential points. To take…
The end of the post-Cold War era
Russia’s invasion is not just an effort to retake what was once part of the Soviet Union. It is a…
What really happens if Russia invades Ukraine?
Russia will pay an enormous price if it invades Ukraine, whether it goes for the whole country or only the…
Nancy takes a knee for Beijing at the Winter Olympics
Nancy Pelosi, stock-trader extraordinaire, doubles as an adviser to America’s Olympic athletes. And her wise, nuanced advice to them is…
