A Nostalgic Read for Foreign Policy Elites
Michael McFaul's new book feels like it was written in 2015, not 2025.
Michael McFaul's new book feels like it was written in 2015, not 2025.
Crutchfield Corporation, a Charlottesville-based and family-owned electronics retailer, has submitted an amicus brief in support of challenges to the president’s reciprocal tariffs.
Debt-ridden and challenged around the world, the U.S. should encourage Europe to defend itself.
Swedes initially hated the congestion pricing experiment. After they witnessed the effects, they voted to bring it back.
Thus, Trump's attacks on boats in the Carribean have no moral or legal justification.
The president bet that no one would stop him from land attacks in Venezuela. And Congress hasn’t given him any reason to think otherwise.
The decision “erodes core constitutional principles, including sovereign States’ control over their States’ militias and the people’s First Amendment rights,” Judge Susan P. Graber warned in her dissent.
The potential for deadly error underlines the lawlessness of the president’s bloodthirsty anti-drug strategy.
The Trump administration is reportedly looking to ease some tariffs on goods not produced in the U.S., as the consequences of a universal tariff scheme are becoming impossible to ignore.
The Singaporean government hanged Pannir Selvam this month, the 10th convict to be executed in 2025 for nonviolent narcotics violations.
Will the Supreme Court grant Trump the overwhelming judicial deference he demands?
Plus: the “No Kings” protests, Trump pays troop salaries during government shutdown, and the continued bombing of drug boats in Venezuela
The correct answer is: Yes, even when they are also regulations. Whether the Court agrees could determine the future of presidential power.
Plus: Karl Marxing my neighborhood, No Kings, the limits of tariff revenue, and more...
The military establishment’s efforts to quash leaks could encourage them instead.
The Argentine president needed a U.S. bailout, and his political adversaries are gaining ground.
The Court of Appeals unanimously refused to stay a trial court ruling against Trump, signaling the judges believe his use of the Guard is illegal.
Until now, the president concedes, interdiction has been "totally ineffective." Blowing up drug boats won't change that reality.
The Marine Corps is trying to close a no-bid contract with Cellebrite, a company that helps police get into locked phones. The specs weren’t supposed to be public.
Mainstream and conservative news outlets were correct to reject it.
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“We have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them,” the Georgia congresswoman said.
It turns out that free trade is essential for the military too.
A guest post by Joshua Braver and John Dehn.
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Plus: new tariff threats escalate China trade war, federal layoffs begin amidst the government shutdown, and Democrats face a candidate-quality crisis
The Pentagon spends a lot of taxpayer money on propaganda worldwide. Some of it is coordinated with Middle Eastern dictators, The Washington Post revealed.
Plus: Luigi Mangione and the death penalty, LLMs and their gambling addictions, and more...
If the courts try to enforce legal limits on the president's military deployments, he can resort to an alarmingly broad statute that gives him more discretion.
Plus: Letitia James' legal trouble, everything's TV (and that's bad), millionaire explosion, and more...
Federal troops are also ill-suited to handle local policing issues.
The war in Gaza was already over in January. Trump let it reopen and expand. A ceasefire is good—but it should have happened much earlier.
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If the Trump administration wants to use military power, it should seek authorization from Congress, says Sen. Rand Paul.
The policy would slow innovation, reduce competitiveness, and leave American workers unprepared for the future.
Plus: World Cup ticket prices, Michael Jordan against NASCAR, and The Smashing Machine
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut concluded that the president's description of "War ravaged Portland" was "simply untethered to the facts."
This is the second lawsuit in a week challenging the Trump administration's National Guard deployments absent a qualifying emergency.
Whether or not one accepts the report's characterization of Israel's actions, the report itself is an interesting read on the economics of war.
“I still believe in America. I do not feel betrayed. I feel hopeful because of how many Americans stood up for me when I was arrested.”
Over $300 billion in Russian state assets are frozen in the West. It's long past time they were used to help Ukraine resist Vladimir Putin's war of aggression..
The president thinks he can transform murder into self-defense by executive fiat.
A fascinating but uneven actor's showcase for Dwayne Johnson.
Pfizer wins big in Trump’s new drug discount gimmick.
Federal officers policing Washington, D.C., on Trump's orders appear to be driving crime down, but the plan is neither constitutionally sound nor viable in the long term.