The “Cornell 7” gang rape case is descending into the same lynch-mob hysteria as the notorious Duke lacrosse or “mattress girl” hoaxes of old — only with social media...
Rom Braslavski was working security at the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, when Palestinian terrorists overran it and abducted him to Gaza. Held for nearly two years by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Braslavski was shown in captivity skeletal and weeping. After his October 2025 release, he described regular beatings and said he had been […]
As a former member of Congress and a lawyer who spent years watching how our legal system actually works, I am deeply troubled by a quiet but corrosive practice that has grown into a multibillion-dollar industry: third-party litigation funding. Outside investors and activist organizations put up the money for lawsuits in exchange for a cut […]
On Feb. 12, 2025, a reporter in the Oval Office asked President Donald Trump about Ukraine’s terms. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wanted security assurances, she said — then corrected herself: If the war ended, he wanted guarantees. Two words. Two consecutive sentences. Used as if they meant the same thing. The president said, “We’ll see […]
The Mecca Agreement and regional pipeline bypasses confirm that Middle Eastern self-reliance, as a multinational region, is no longer theoretical. Three months ago, I discussed the transitions underway across the Middle East amid the Iran war. With continual delays and memorandums, it looked as though Iran was running the show. That reading missed what was […]
Thirty-eight years after Iran’s mass execution of political prisoners, the gallows are still being used for the same political purpose: to intimidate a population that challenges the Islamic Republic. On Sunday, Iran executed Shahram Sadeghi in Karaj. He had been convicted of deliberately driving into police officers during the January 2026 anti-government protests. Iran’s judiciary […]
For decades, Washington accepted the idea that American manufacturing jobs were simply the price of globalization. Communities watched factories close, supply chains move overseas, and good-paying jobs disappear, while policymakers insisted that free trade alone would eventually make everyone better off. President Donald Trump rejected that consensus, and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement has shown why […]
President Donald Trump’s decision to curtail the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises exposes a foundational pathology within the U.S.-South Korea alliance. For decades, Washington has tolerated a dangerous asymmetry: Seoul expects the protection of 28,500 American troops, continuous joint training, and billions in U.S. taxpayer subsidies, yet blinks at broader global threats. When Washington requested South […]
I’ve spent a career drafting language that has to mean exactly one thing under stress: contracts, offering memoranda, expert reports, the kind of documents where a loose word costs a client real money. That discipline explains what’s happening in the fight over birthright citizenship. When a court reads your position narrowly, you don’t quit; you […]
President Donald Trump said last week that after defeating Iran, he would declare the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the United States. I understand the instinct behind the statement. Iran has turned one of the world’s most important waterways into a weapon. It has threatened ships, disrupted energy supplies, and used the strait to […]
Woke 1 may have been crazy, but Woke 2 is shaping up to be even crazier. Last week, at its summer meeting in Austin, Texas, the Democratic National Committee’s Resolutions Committee approved a resolution calling on Democrats in Congress to draft legislation that would “abolish” Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Previous versions had called only for […]
