2002—It turns out that there are limits to the courts’ overreaching interpretations of the religious guarantees of the Establishment Clause—at least when the rights...
It’s another reason the Dodgers never should have left Brooklyn. If you had to choose one photograph to capture American childhood in the 1950s, you might pick an Arthur Leipzig shot of children playing stickball in front of the brownstones of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Leipzig would have never published a photo like that from Los Angeles because […]
Last week, we highlighted the political cynicism and incoherence expressed by many Democrats after President Donald Trump ordered a daring and successful raid by U.S. special forces to capture and exfiltrate erstwhile Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. The socialist strongman and his wife now sit in American jail cells as they await trial on a host […]
Then-Reps. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and Chris Collins (R-NY) were the first two House members to endorse Donald Trump in early 2016. Both men were indicted on federal charges in 2018, and both nevertheless ran for reelection and won with explicit support from Trump. After winning, Hunter and Collins both pleaded guilty in 2019. Hunter admitted […]
The worst case in Iran is not that the regime murders thousands of civilians and survives in power. The worst case is that the regime commits mass murder and survives in power despite American intervention. The result would resemble what happened to President Jimmy Carter in 1980. When the Marines failed to extract American hostages […]
Populism is having a defining moment again, though it never really went away. This approach to politics surged after Donald Trump made his appearance on the stage in 2015, along with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the Democratic primaries. The two candidacies helped to reshape both parties a decade ago, and this populist trend remains […]
A decade before he exercised force in Venezuela, sought the fall of Cuba, or fixed his eyes on Greenland, Donald Trump had his sights not on conquering nations but on toppling his rivals for the Republican nomination for president. Small stakes can have large ramifications. To vanquish those seeking the 2016 GOP presidential nomination would […]