North Korea has launched yet another missile. On Aug. 6, Pyongyang fired an unidentified projectile into the East Sea. South Korean and Japanese authorities immediately assessed the situation, and military authorities braced for the possibility of further provocations. Yet, this news no longer halts South Korean society in its tracks. A breaking news alert flashes, […]

ROME — For years, the European commentariat has warned that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni would drag her country back toward dark traditions. The real test of that prophecy may now arrive in the form of a former army general whose politics make Meloni look like a liberal. Roberto Vannacci’s new far-right party, National Future, […]

The inspector general for California‘s high-speed rail project has an update: The project is going broke (again), is being delayed (again), and is not being transparent with the public (again). Benjamin Belnap’s report highlighted several missing details in the project’s 2026 business plan and concluded that the project would again run out of money as early as […]

For more than a decade, Democrats have watched Donald Trump succeed with a brand of politics that is crude, often coarse, and always volatile. They have agonized, mostly unproductively, about how to defeat it. They tried various strategies, and all ultimately failed. Now they are trying another that is doomed. First, before it was clear […]