Opinion

It seems that the best way to stop Israel from bombing hospitals in Gaza would be for Palestinian terrorists to stop using those hospitals as military facilities. And the people whining most about Israel’s strikes are the ones who should know that best. Israel earlier this week launched a targeted airstrike on a building at […]

The American Kickboxing Academy sits in San Jose, California, an hour south of my home in San Francisco. Khabib Nurmagomedov’s team has trained there for years. San Jose is also home to the largest Georgian community in the Bay Area. Remember that geography. It matters more than the Nurmagomedovs seem to think. If this feud […]

The danger for Washington is not merely what Mohsen Rezaei threatens, but the possibility that he mistakes the threats themselves for a strategy — and deterrence for a license to escalate. To examine that danger, one must trace the relationship between Rezaei’s ideological formation, his rhetoric of confrontation, and the risk of strategic miscalculation.” Rezaei […]

The midterm election results gave the minority party plenty of confidence heading into the new year. It wasn’t a trickle or a wave. It was a tsunami. It was a repudiation of the majority-party leadership in Washington and throughout the country. While Republicans lick their collective wounds, Democrats are celebrating. And one thing on everyone’s […]

Kyiv has a simple prerequisite for a peace agreement with Moscow. Any deal must obstruct Russia from restarting its war on Ukraine five, 10, or 15 years down the road. Ukraine’s viewpoint is informed by history and by recognition of Russia’s belief that Ukraine is only a limb of its imperium. The history is clear. […]

On Sept. 29, a FEMA official swore in a deposition that she went to law school as “a night student” while working for the agency. Two weeks later, her school’s subpoenaed records showed day classes in fall 2018 and spring 2019 and a degree from its “day division.” She ran FEMA’s Continuous Improvement Program in […]

The primary obligation of any sovereign government is the absolute, unapologetic defense of its borders. Controlling who enters and who stays is central to national survival — a reality Americans understand intimately as the crisis at the U.S. southern border reshapes domestic politics. Yet, while the United States grapples with its own crisis of continental […]

We know based on polls that Democrats simply do not like America. In fact, they dislike America so much that they want someone else to handle all the issues in our own backyard. An Economist/YouGov poll asked Americans whether or not they believe the United States should be the dominant power in the Western Hemisphere […]

After Nvidia boss Jensen Huang confessed to having an extramarital affair with an accused Chinese spy, the internet was quick to find the real villain of the story: not the CEO, who was forced to resign amid an FBI inquiry into whether Huang was compromised by Beijing, but his wife of 41 years. In a […]

At about 10:04 p.m. on Nov. 3, the Associated Press called the Texas Senate race for James Talarico. Roughly 16 minutes later, Ken Paxton conceded. The Republican attorney general had spent the better part of a year, in one of the most expensive Senate contests in American history, trying to hold a seat in a […]

Voters across the country rebuked President Donald Trump and the Republican Party in the Nov. 3 midterm elections, producing a powerful blue wave in the first major electoral test since his sweeping victory in 2024. The results were expected in battleground states, but not in Texas, a longtime bastion of conservatism that has maintained a […]

“We have a bunch of gangsters, thugs, punks, thieves, and drug smugglers running the country.” These words were spoken to me 36 years ago by Richard Morse, owner of the Hotel Oloffson, as we looked down from a balcony at Port-au-Prince, the fetid capital of Haiti. The Oloffson, built in the 19th century as a […]