The Iran war has turned into a political disaster for President Donald Trump. The conflict was never popular to begin with, and predictably, support for it has dropped over time. Eighty percent of Americans favor ending the war as quickly as possible. Despite an overwhelming victory on the battlefield, the president and his negotiators pivoted […]
Few public policy issues divide Americans as deeply as laws regulating gun ownership or the recreational use of marijuana. Yet, last week, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in United States v. Hemani, a case in which unlawful drug use collided with the right to keep and bear arms. This rare showing of unity […]
President Donald Trump is presenting the Iran negotiations as proof that U.S. and Israeli military pressure worked. In contrast, Iran is leveraging its survival of that military campaign, claiming it entered negotiations on its own terms. Iran’s contention is the more accurate one. The truth? The Trump administration used force against Iran, raised expectations of […]
Mikhail Gorbachev never intended to liquidate the Soviet empire. Perestroika and glasnost were meant to rescue a bankrupt ideology and a moribund economy after the West’s relentless pressure exposed communism’s hollowness. Instead, they hastened the empire’s unraveling. The system collapsed not because Gorbachev hated it, but because his reforms could not save what ideology and […]
A flu outbreak has torn through the basic training wing at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, sickening more than 220 recruits and raising hard questions about War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision, less than two months earlier, to drop the requirement that all troops get a flu shot. The outbreak hit the 37th Training […]
At times, a boxing match is not won when punches are being traded, but in the pauses between them. For the casual observer, nothing appears to be happening. The crowd grows restless, awaiting results, while the fighters circle one another, catch their breath, study reactions, assess damage, and reset their footing. Yet seasoned fighters understand […]
At a moment when people seem to disagree on almost everything, there is an encouraging surprise beneath the headlines: We have not given up on one another. As our nation approaches its 250th birthday, many are taking stock of the republic we have inherited, and they are voicing concern. A new NBC News national survey, […]
Tuesday’s primaries were the coming-out party of DINOs: Democrats in name only. Any real Democrats not in a state of shock or terror are not paying attention. For the party is no longer theirs, and there’s probably nothing they can do about it. They didn’t lose it exactly but gave it away. Stupidly, they pretended […]
Britain has just dispatched its sixth prime minister in a decade, and is about to get its seventh. The country that used to be held up as a model of grown-up political stability is suddenly looking rather Mediterranean. The Economist started it in 2022, when Liz Truss was ousted, with its “Welcome to Britaly” front […]
