On July 29, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met Donald Trump in the White House. Their relationship was “much better,” Zelensky said, because of the turning tide in the Russian-Ukrainian war. Zelensky’s narrative of the turning tide has been amplified by the...
The state has discovered that the most efficient way to manage what you believe is to reach you before you know you are being reached. Consider a man walking into a church in Prescott, Arizona on a Sunday morning. He carries a phone, as everyone does. He does not know...
When President Donald Trump declared Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to U.S. national security in a January 2026 Executive Order, the designation was accompanied by a series of sweeping claims. Among them were accusations that Cuba “provides support” to...
In this age of social media and A.I. illusions, an old Russian scam provides the best lens to understand America’s two most recent presidents. In eighteenth-century czarist Russia, a fake village was built by a Russian governor named Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin to...
The US government has come dangerously close to doing something sensible that the public wants: removing the dreaded annual clock changes which make the warmer months "Daylight Savings Time." However, seeing two paths diverge in the wood, they have, without any...
Few ideas have shaped the way Washington talks about Beijing more than the Thucydides Trap. The Harvard political scientist Graham Allison built the phrase on a single line from the ancient historian Thucydides, who wrote that "it was the rise of Athens and the fear...
“The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary.” That’s Thomas Jefferson—sounding the alarm over what he saw as the greatest threat to the Constitution and your liberty. He gave us four main warnings: Consolidation is death to freedom. Judges can be just as...
In what is the monetary equivalent of tearing down statues, the British have decided they must replace iconic images on their currency. Out of an apparent fear of offending the stampede of human beings who have chosen to abandon their own homelands to live in Great...
