ARE MIDTERM RESULTS ALREADY BAKED IN THE CAKE? President Donald Trump will gather Republicans in a rare midterm convention starting Wednesday in Dallas. It’s a chance, GOP organizers hope, to fire up voters and reset a campaign in which Republicans appear to be trailing in several key races. It’s reasonable that Republicans would want to do […]
The New York Times and The Washington Post recently published investigations built on some 150 leaked documents, photographs, and intercepted messages from inside the Sudanese Armed Forces. The picture is chilling: a program, launched in mid-2024, to build chlorine bombs; a stockpile of roughly 290 munitions at Merowe air base; indications that more than 100 […]
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) is entitled to his political conclusions. He isn’t entitled to his own version of history. When history complicates the argument, Americans deserve the complicated history — not just the convenient half. That matters because some of Lieu’s most effective arguments are not built on outright falsehoods. Sometimes the facts are true. […]
The 2023 military coup in Gabon ended more than 50 years of Bongo family rule. After years of corruption and disputed elections, the coup gave the Gabonese people hope that they could begin a new chapter. The political transition also created an opportunity to boost U.S. engagement with the country where China has established a […]
The White House’s reported plot to redirect funding from the Child Care and Development Block Grant subsidies for working parents to families with one stay-at-home parent is best understood as an 11th-hour political ploy to bolster Republicans’ odds in the midterm elections, but a gambit that is unlikely to stand up in court. Because the […]
President Donald Trump’s drug pricing policy has two China blind spots. The first is that Washington is pressing other developed economies to pay what it calls their fair share for pharmaceutical innovation, while China remains largely outside that burden-sharing effort, even as Chinese drug developers increasingly benefit from the high-priced American market through licensing and […]
The Russia-Ukraine war has reached a new technological level where combat operations are increasingly shifting to the realm of unmanned systems, and the majority of strikes — at both the tactical and operational-strategic levels — are carried out using attack drones and missiles. The protracted nature of the war and its intensity have created a […]
On a Tuesday morning in March, a curious wave of enthusiasm rolled across social media. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani had just canceled a $9 million McKinsey contract, and within hours, comedians, operatives, and parenting influencers were all praising the move in strikingly similar language. It looked like an organic consensus. It was choreography. […]
Alternative für Deutschland’s electoral victory this weekend in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt is serving as a sharp wake-up call for the country’s ruling...
1993—Missouri 17-year-old Christopher Simmons plans a brutal murder and assures his friends that they can “get away with it” because they are minors. In...
