1998—At a fundraiser for its political action committees, the National Organization for Women auctions off a gift provided to it by Justice Ruth Bader...
It was FIFA’s corruption that stunned people, not President Donald Trump’s. The chief executive’s contempt for rules is now taken for granted. What astonished the world was that soccer’s global governing body crumbled in the face of his pressure. To recap, the American striker Folarin Balogun was sent off for jumping on the ankle of […]
For several months, the Strait of Hormuz was closed, sparking speculation of $8 a gallon gasoline and global recession. While the period caused some pain, it turned out to be more sanguine than many predicted. Much of the credit belongs to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, one of the most effective government programs in history. The […]
On June 30, the Drug Enforcement Administration took steps to temporarily ban 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) products nationwide. You might think this is about public safety — but as a recent article showed, the kratom industry has been pushing bans like this because it doesn’t like the 7-OH competition. But for folks like me, living with chronic […]
When Washington announced in January that the United States would withdraw from 66 international organizations — 31 of them United Nations bodies, including the framework convention that has anchored global climate diplomacy for three decades, the reaction abroad was the familiar blend of alarm and condescension. Reckless. Isolationist. The indispensable nation calling it quits. I […]
In the mid-1950s, several countries had fallen or were falling to the scourge of tyrannical socialism. At the time, President Dwight Eisenhower, who a decade earlier played a crucial role in the defeat of national socialist Nazi Germany in World War II, proposed “the falling domino theory.” Speaking metaphorically about the rise of socialism in […]
