The building's facade is gone this morning — an ugly gash reminiscent of the smoldering Pentagon on 9/11. This disfigurement is not the act of terrorists or foreign foes. It's the work of our president. The East Wing of the White House, which has housed the visitors center, the office of the ...
President Donald Trump's use of the U.S. military to kill persons on speed boats in international waters, or in territorial waters claimed by other sovereign nations — all 1,500 miles from the U.S. — has posed grave issues of due process. The Constitution's guarantee of due process requires ...
The only thing the parties can agree on is that Donald Trump is the central issue of our time. Let's start with a recent headline: "It's 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump." "After a year of soul-searching and introspection by Democrats about what they should stand for ...
In the 1960s, the conservative intellectual James Burnham wrote a book arguing that the decline of Western civilization was a self-imposed choice. The volume, famously called "Suicide of the West," desperately needs to be updated with an epilogue about the U.S. dependence on China for the ...
The US Department of Defense — newly renamed the Department of War by the Trump administration — has opted to wage its first war of the new era not on the battlefield but within the bowels of the Pentagon pressroom. The department issued a memo to reporters, saying they would be required ...
The Constitution's First Amendment protects free speech for good reason. If people can't say what they want, we don't have honest debate. I was relieved when Donald Trump, campaigning for the presidency, said, "If we don't have free speech, then we just don't have a free country!" Good for ...