Five days after his party suffered a spectacular loss in the midterm elections, President Donald Trump sat down for a nearly half hour interview with Ross Douthat of CBS News. On foreign policy, Trump made three particularly shocking statements. The day after the...
In its early days, Saturday Night Live got a lot of comedy mileage out of Chevy Chase satirizing President Gerald Ford’s clumsiness with exaggerated pratfalls and stumbles. It wasn’t just SNL. Comedian Bob Hope piled on, saying you could always find Ford on the golf...
The casual observer could be forgiven for wondering how the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a Sudanese paramilitary organization notorious for atrocities in Darfur, became powerful enough to challenge the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) for control of the country when its...
Over the last year, a common narrative has circulated through conservative commentary about Latin America’s political shifts. Washington dismantled the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the argument goes, and conservative candidates began...
The word “audacity,” defined by the Cambridge English Dictionary as “courage or confidence of a kind that other people find shocking or rude,” is, as its definition suggests, construed mainly in personal terms, and often, as with Barack Obama’s “the audacity of hope,”...
With all of President Donald Trump’s wars—Iran, Yemen, Ukraine, Nigeria, Somalia, Venezuela, and cartels—it's easy to lose track of what is happening on the Korean Peninsula. However, since Trump returned to the White House, a series of developments on the Korean...
Perhaps you’re old enough to recall the New Atheist movement and the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism," a reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Christian eschatology, or theology of the end times. Inspired by this quartet, I have been cataloging the "Four...
On October 25, the left-wing incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who came second in the first round of elections, defeated the right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro, who had defeated him in round one. The result was always possible, since millions had sat out expressing their...
