Former President Barack Obama took to the campaign trail over the weekend to rejuvenate Democratic voters and take aim at President Donald Trump. He offered a snarky remark about Trump’s renovations to the White House that, like many of the criticisms Obama makes, didn’t really make any sense. The 44th president blasted Trump for installing […]
I’ve brewed beer in my garage, and Washington never objected. Had I added a still and made whiskey, the same government could have fined me up to $10,000 and jailed me for up to five years. On Oct. 19, the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether Congress may impose that rule, in Department of Justice […]
Strains between long-standing allies have become a familiar part of world politics, and they are now surfacing in the South Caucasus. Turkey and Azerbaijan, whose leaders like to describe their bond as “one nation, two states,” are quarreling over religious dress, national sovereignty, and accusations of political interference. The spark was a school dress code. […]
Washington’s prolonged passivity in the Mediterranean has finally come due. On Oct. 20, 2026, eastern Libya’s parliament ratified the disastrous and submissive 2019 maritime memorandum with Turkey, reversing years of opposition. Because the corrupt western Government of National Unity in Tripoli had already endorsed the same document, both rival administrations now jointly underwrite Turkey’s most […]
2020—A divided Ninth Circuit panel rules (in Cortesluna v. Leon) that the district court wrongly determined that a police officer was entitled to qualified immunity on a claim...
A loss by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tuesday's Israeli elections could mean a cooling of domestic political polarization in Washington. But the U.S. security relationship with Israel is unlikely to change whether Mr. Netanyahu remains in office or not.
