On Feb. 4, 1920, Royal Air Force planes struck the fortified wells and stone forts of Taleh, decisively ending Mohammed Abdullah Hassan’s twenty-year Dervish resistance in British Somaliland. By deploying obsolete bombers alongside a small local levy, Britain accomplished what successive ground columns had repeatedly failed to achieve against a highly resilient jihadi movement. This […]
1949—President Truman recess-appoints David L. Bazelon to the D.C. Circuit. With a lifetime appointment from Truman a few months later, Bazelon serves for 30 years in...
When a Western democracy enters a state of violent combustion, observers naturally look for the simplest explanation. Over the weekend, as smoke blanketed Paris, Lyon, and Marseille, American commentators quickly diagnosed the crisis as a pure failure of immigration policy and border control. Earlier this week, the president and vice president cited the same reasons […]
When British Defence Secretary Wes Streeting traveled to Washington last week to meet Pete Hegseth, he warned that the threats facing Britain and America were growing. He raised alarm about Russia waging war in Europe, and about rapid advances in machinery technology in the hands of adversaries. Appealing to their historic trans-Atlantic friendship — at […]
Shortly after President Donald Trump’s second term began, Elon Musk proclaimed “RIP CFPB” while trying to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The president and Congress slashed the federal agency’s budget, almost in half, by enacting the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. However, Musk’s chainsaw and Congress’s axe can’t cut through political reality: Voters really […]
