Foreign Affairs Ukraine Should Have Heeded Milley’s Warning Kiev should have seized the opportunity at the end of 2022. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley speaks during a press briefing after a virtual Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at the Pentagon on November 16, 2022 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Alex […]
Foreign Affairs The Biden Legacy: War With Russia? The administration’s decision to allow strikes on Russian territory brings the U.S. to the brink. Credit: image via Shutterstock President Joe Biden approved another escalation in his administration’s long march to turn an already extravagant proxy fight into a hot war. He reversed more than two years […]
Politics How the Democrats Became the War Party Today we witness the endgame of an eight-decade Democratic internal debate. Credit: Vitaliy Holovin/Shutterstock The hysterical and vitriolic attacks made by Massachusetts’s Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren and Florida’s Democratic Representative Deborah Wasserman Schultz against Donald Trump’s nominee to be director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, only serves to […]
The American embassy in Kiev announced Wednesday its temporary closure due to the possibility of Russia launching a “significant air attack” on the city. The move comes a day after Ukraine significantly escalated the conflict by using long-range U.S. missiles on targets within Russia. “The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv has received specific information of a […]
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to pick Russell Vought to run the Office of Management and Budget. Vought is notable as having served as OMB director during the final two years of Trump’s first term and thereafter as an author of the “Executive Office of the President” chapter of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. Vought […]
President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday his selection of Matthew Whitaker to serve as the U.S. ambassador to NATO. Whitaker served as chief of staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and subsequently as acting attorney general for a short period during Trump’s first presidential term, but is an outsider to the national security realm. In a […]
Politics Trump Faces Senate Test in Second Term The post-Trump Republican Party will be defined by Cabinet confirmations. Whatever you think of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, he has learned one thing from his first term: few Beltway truisms are truer than personnel is policy. Trump wants to make a sharp break with the status […]
Foreign Affairs The Promise of Trump’s Realist China Grand Strategy Trump’s focus should be on Beijing before all else. (crystal51/Shutterstock) President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive election victory gives him a once-in-a-generation mandate to finally implement an America First grand strategy and thus replace the outdated globalist post-World War II framework. Trump’s vision is a hard-nosed realist […]
Culture The Counterintuitive Reason Legacy Media Leans Left Economics rather than ideology drives the bias of the press. Credit: image via Shutterstock The left-wing bias of the mainstream media may have been more evident in the recent election than ever before, but its existence has long been recognized, even admitted by the media’s own journalists. […]
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has nominated Howard Lutnick to serve as secretary of commerce in the incoming administration. Lutnick, who is currently the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald and the co-chair of Trump’s presidential transition committee, was competing for the post with his fellow transition co-chair Lind McMahon, who […]
