President Trump’s threat to take over Gaza was “aimed at convincing Arab states” to produce a “tangible plan of their own,” argues Commentary’s Seth...
McKEESPORT, Pennsylvania — The Democrats‘ new national party chairman, Ken Martin, came to western Pennsylvania on Tuesday as part of a multistate tour in the Great Lakes Midwest in an effort to send a message to working-class voters that Democrats have lost in recent elections. Martin chose McKeesport, the once-thriving working-class manufacturing city located in […]
European governments are concerned by President Donald Trump’s current foreign policy. Trump is attempting to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine without Europe’s direct involvement. And while the absolute critical ingredient of any successful peace depends on post-war peacekeepers, Trump’s deluded history of the war is a problem deserving of concern. Still, Americans […]
The mess playing out in New York between Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams is entirely the work of corrupt and incompetent Democrats. At some point, this reality should be embarrassing for voters in New York who have chosen to empower the New York Democratic Party. In one corner is Adams, […]
If you follow these things closely, you may have seen a clip of the chairman of the Munich Security Conference breaking down in tears, unable to speak any further while reflecting on Vice President JD Vance’s speech there. This breakdown is remarkable because the chairman, Christoph Heusgen, is not a minor apparatchik but a sophisticated […]
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has made public what has been known privately for a while now: The United Kingdom will deploy troops as part of a non-NATO peacekeeping force designed to preserve any U.S.-negotiated end to the war in Ukraine. His announcement is welcome but carries numerous complications. First, there is glaring opposition from […]
Rotten Big Apple? Prosecutorial pile-on? Politics as blood sport? To legal observers in New York City, those were the questions haunting the pending criminal trial of Mayor Eric Adams. The Trump Justice Department ended speculation last week with a bombshell memo to the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, the fabled and […]
It was a good year for Argentina and its president, Javier Milei. In 2024, Argentina saw impressive economic progress as Milei slashed bureaucracy, eliminated regulations, closed superfluous departments, reduced the federal workforce, and instituted various monetary reforms. The results of the policies were impressive: monthly inflation, which peaked after Milei assumed office, fell from 25.5% to […]
Following Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s direct talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, in the Riyadh summit, President Donald Trump mocked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s complaints about his exclusion. “Today I heard, ‘Oh, well, we weren’t invited,’” Trump said about the Ukrainian leader. “Well, you’ve been there for three years. You should have ended […]
