President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's relationship soured in 2025 when Musk criticized Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, leading to a political breakup that played out on social media.

Perhaps the greatest legacy of President Donald Trump’s first term was ending the debate about whether China would be a cooperative power or competitor. In hindsight, it appears naive that any Republican or Democrat would believe that China wanted to do anything other than overthrow the post-World War II U.S.-led democratic international order. President Bill […]

Russia’s claim that Ukraine launched aerial attack drones at President Vladimir Putin’s Moscow residence follows a familiar pattern of false Kremlin claims. This latest one surfaced as United States and Ukrainian officials reported progress in peace negotiations. Moscow is using the purported attack to cite new grounds for revising its negotiating position. Ukraine quickly rejected the […]

President Donald Trump’s national strategy document “upends” America’s long-standing policy toward European nations, which have been this country’s closest allies for a century or more.  The president and his lieutenants focus on Europe’s feckless immigration policies, chronic unwillingness to pay for its own defense, its weakness in defending the Western values that undergird democratic freedom, […]