White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that President Donald Trump concluded meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “President Trump has concluded his meetings in the Oval Office with President...
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...
Israeli media reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing to present President Donald Trump with intelligence that Iran has accelerated efforts to make a nuclear weapon. According to Israel’s Channel 12 News, Netanyahu plans to make the case...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia is receiving significant military support from North Korea, Iran, and China. “I think three moments on which we have to focus. First, North Korea will send to Russia 30,000 soldiers. The second point Iranians...
US operations against suspected drug boats in Latin America have failed to slow the rate of cocaine entering the US. The Washington Post reviewed a DEA assessment that found the strikes on vessels operated by alleged narco-terrorists have not changed the amount or...
John and I discuss the evils of men, changing ourselves, and reading the preface to Ordinary Men.
I further examine the strategic deficit disorder that absolutely dominates the US and western military establishments. America has a singular inability to execute large and complex wars without failing in a spectacular fashion. I speak to the tools and critical...
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...
