3 reasons not to worry about North Korea’s post-Hanoi freakout. The regime wants to jockey for the strategic initiative going forwards, that’s all.
Why Benjamin Netanyahu is having a very bad week: Indictments and bad allies.
Sen. Jeff Merkley’s stupid tweet comparing Trump and Kim Jong Un. It’s partisan hackery of the lowest order.
Where’s Hamas? The astonishing absence of Hamas culpability in a new report on Gaza violence. It shows the UN’s amazing bias.
How to end Nicolas Maduro’s stranglehold over Venezuela by restricting his oil supplies to Cuba. It’s all about cutting off the regime’s security enablers.
In a Chinese propaganda article: the inadvertent expression of Xi Jinping’s vulnerability. The Chinese leader is caught between his domestic repression and foreign aggression.
Jim Acosta tells Oxford University that Fox News is becoming state TV. His is a significant ego.
Russian nuclear threats, and how I learned to love Dmitry Kiselyov’s stupidity. The ultranationalist TV host makes a fool out of himself attempting to threaten America.
Personal responsibility is not racist, and Barack Obama is no race traitor for endorsing it. Arguments to the contrary are sad and silly.
Time to cut IMF aid to Pakistan. The government of Pakistan has consistently refused to address its sick relationship with terrorists. Remedial action is necessary.
Russia, Iran, and Bashar Assad will be furious with the U.S. decision to retain 400 troops in Syria. They know it limits their interests in significant ways.
Even the mad hatter wouldn’t remove Portland police from the city’s JTTF. The council’s decision to do so is an act of stunning idiocy.
The 3 exaggerations in Putin’s new nuclear threats. Russia does not retain the dominance that Putin asserts.
Jessie Smollett’s lies have almost certainly cost at least 90 victims the better chance of justice. Here’s why.
George Galloway’s wacko Nazi excuse for why the Labour Party doesn’t have an antisemitism problem. Hint: it really, really does.
Why the new US Navy deployment to the Black Sea is so interesting. The authorizing admiral is matching this deployment with an effort to agitate Russia.
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and the nature of British military banter. The Royal Marines just gave an exercise in fine banter form.
Elizabeth Warren: making fiscal black holes great again. The senator is promising tens of trillions in new spending but has no plan to pay for it.
Don’t defend Iran’s leaders, you’ll look stupid. The Iranian government is a big problem in the Middle East. To say otherwise is to be delusional.
What Vox’s Matthew Ygelsias gets wrong about the Cold War. Yes, conservatives were right to pursue interventionism against the margins of Soviet power.
Why, in 100 words, Trump is wrong to declare a national emergency. It's about good government.
A significant US Navy and Marine Corps presence is quietly building in waters near Venezuela. It suggests Trump may send a MEU to Colombia.
The US Navy doesn't need a lot more ships, it needs to better use what it has. And procure more of what it needs/less of what makes it vulnerable. This isn't complicated.
Russia's internet insulation isn't about cyber-defense so much as it is scaring Europe. The Russians know they can't insulate against US cyber-strike capabilities.
Why Tuesday will be a big day for Venezuela's future. The aid convoy effort is stepping up a gear.
Journalists have no business telling stores what clothes to sell. The pathetic outrage over "fake news" t-shirts evidences a journalistic triumph of ego and ignorance over morality and duty.
Paris mayor turns up her noses at tourists. By trying to weaken Airbnb in the French capital, the mayor shows the worst impulses of socialism.
Congresswoman Illhan Omar offers a non apology apology. Is she an antisemite?
How to save Venezuelans and undercut Maduro's propaganda: send a hospital ship. The US navy vessels have the means to save many lives.
Green New Deal? Try economic armageddon. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's latest gift to civic life is a joke of epic proportions.
Trump's Iraq gaffe is a real problem: speaking without thinking, Trump has induced the triumph of Iraqi nationalist populism over joined US-Iraqi interest.
Nicolas Maduro: Venezuela's mix of Macbeth and Mr. Blobby. The pretender president is an absurd and immoral cretin.
At the State of the Union, American glory as rendered by Holocaust survivors and those who saved them. It was a wonderful moment.
The US should sanction Venezuelan military officers who are obstructing aid supplies into Venezuela. Doing so would send a powerful political message in support of the Venezuelan people.
Trump's State of the Union was Trump at his best. The president was generous.
Is Virginia about to get the third-in-line-to-governor, Kirk Cox? The current scandal situation suggests it's a possibility.
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Episode 3, Rogan and Rogan: podcast with my father discussing foreign policy and economic issues.
Why Iran's hardliners just threatened Israel. It's about three factors: anger towards Rouhani more-moderates, anger against the IDF, and anger against Russia.
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy blames Trump for arms sales under Obama. He should correct his tweet.
