Trade sanctions don’t work. They hurt ordinary people in your country, the country you are targeting, and boost the regime you dislike. They are an exercise in performative legislation, intended to signal your disapproval of another government rather than to achieve any practical outcome. This is difficult to say because it risks sounding soft on […]

The recent case before the Supreme Court on birthright citizenship points to a more fundamental constitutional crisis that has been called “post-constitutionalism.” We have reached the era in which the imperatives of the administrative state have replaced the formalism of the Constitution.  The ideological liberals who advocated this radical change contend that the Constitution has […]

Three European nations held elections Sunday that ratified a rightward shift and further realigned the continent’s political tectonic plates. But if you’re a captive of our legacy media, you could be forgiven for believing that Donald Trump is losing elections in far-off places where he is not on the ballot. Take the Washington Post’s analysis […]