Noise is still a disturbance, and immigration is still contentious. These things are not changing, and in fact, efforts to persuade the public otherwise have brought ever-greater disorder. This side of things is painfully obvious in the New York subway system, in which back-to-back violent incidents are, these days, its most prominent feature. Some things […]

Almost every U.S. president since George H.W. Bush had his foreign policy legacy defined by the crisis no one saw coming during the campaign. For the elder Bush, it was Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Bill Clinton ended up in two Balkans wars. George W. Bush sought a domestic focus but, in the aftermath of the […]

The recent unexplained drone sightings in New Jersey and previous incidents at an Air Force base in Virginia have pulled back the curtain on America’s vulnerability to swarms of commercial and recreational drones. It’s not a question of if, but rather when, terrorists will exploit that weakness with attacks. The follow-up question is what weapons […]

On Dec. 16, 2024, the U.S. Treasury Department celebrated the seventh meeting of a joint economic working group with China. According to Treasury’s press release, both sides “shared views on areas of cooperation,” while the U.S. side “expressed its continued concern” about Beijing’s nonmarket policies and “the support of some Chinese firms” for Russia’s war […]