1963— As Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel write in Justice Brennan, this day stands out among all others as the day when Justice Brennan’s “new majority”—resulting from...
Legacy media are failing to deliver honest reporting on the war with Iran. “President Trump faces a stark choice — stay in the battle to achieve the dauntingly ambitious goals he has set, or try to extract himself from an expanding and intensifying conflict that is generating damaging military, diplomatic and economic shock waves,” says the New […]
Two decades ago, at a conference in Gdansk, Poland, marking the 25th anniversary of Poland’s Solidarity Movement, Radek Sikorski, now the foreign minister of Poland, gathered Lech Wałęsa, the head of the movement that arguably set the clock ticking down on Soviet tyranny, and other Solidarity alumni and dissidents still facing their own evil empires. […]
Our nation’s 250th anniversary this year gives President Donald Trump a unique opportunity to shape the midterm elections in his favor. Trump should deliver three major speeches commemorating freedom and democracy, the first at Normandy, France, on June 6 for the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day invasion. A second major address should take place at Valley Forge on July Fourth, and a […]
The escalating crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is often discussed as a global energy shock. Roughly a fifth of the world’s oil supply normally passes through this narrow maritime corridor, meaning any disruption immediately rattles markets from Asia to Europe. But beyond the global headlines lies a quieter and potentially more dangerous story: Iraq […]
“There is a deep anti-military bias in the media, one that begins from the premise that the military must be lying, and that American projection of power around the world must be wrong.” When former ABC reporter and anchor Terry Moran told me this in an interview in May of 2006, his assertion elicited quite […]
