Raging against the supposed “deep state” in Washington has long been one of President Donald Trump’s favorite pastimes. Borrowed from Turkey, that loaded term has become a catch-phrase among the MAGA faithful for the idea that the intelligence community is subverting Trump. Some of Trump’s loathing for the deep state is certainly well-earned. Senior IC holdovers […]

Events in the Middle East demonstrate that the position of the United States as the world’s leading producer of oil and natural gas, including liquefied natural gas, provides the nation with a large economic and national security advantage in this period of global turmoil. A focus of President Donald Trump’s administration should be to implement policies that provide incentives for oil […]

In the fight over Department of Homeland Security funding, Democrats have, for the first time under the second Trump administration, put both the White House and congressional Republicans on defense in the immigration battle. Their strongest argument for restricting Immigration and Customs Enforcement is simple and superficially appealing: require the agency to obtain “judicial warrants” before arresting […]

Washington may be entering the most consequential phase of its confrontation with Iran, not defined by diplomacy, but by the uneasy overlap of negotiations and military escalation. On paper, talks between U.S. officials and representatives of the Islamic Republic are moving forward, reportedly through Pakistani mediation. In practice, however, the battlefield tells a different story. […]