Having struck at migration, crime, and climate, Trump turned next to the war in Ukraine. In his September 23 UN address, he did not frame...

After migration and crime, Trump’s third cudgel in his September 23 UN address targeted climate policy and energy. Where Part 1 exposed...

Trump’s September 23 UN address opened with migration as the spearhead of his attack. In Part 1, we saw how he portrayed the UN as...

President Trump’s September 23 address to the United Nations was not a policy speech so much as a weaponized performance. He selected...

Vlad Vexler and I reach the same conclusion about President Trump’s latest posture on Ukraine: it is nothing to celebrate, because it...

NATO cannot fully move into its capstoned phase while burdened by leadership that failed the critical tests caused by Trump 2.0. Mark...

President Trump’s descent into cartoonish spectacle has had an unintended effect: it has delivered the capstone to the alliance’s...

Disney has crossed an inviolate line, and the price must now be paid: it must be broken up. The suspension of Jimmy Kimmel was not some...

Let us begin with three premises. First, Ukraine is on the cusp of punishing Putin on a scale yet unseen, as drone warfare strips away...

James Comey has tried to frame his intervention in the 2016 election as a tragic but dutiful act, accompanied by his admission of feeling...

The essence of durable alliance is mutual need reinforced by mutual respect. Ukraine can trust me because my survival is inseparably tied...

Orientation: game theory as the frame What we are seeing with Trump-Putin is a two-king game on a nuclear chessboard. The first king...

The debate over how to leverage the hundreds of billions in immobilised Russian sovereign assets has always been defined less by...

Thesis — The myth that the European Union and loyal NATO members are irretrievably dependent on the United States for defense is false in...

Three propositions can hold simultaneously. First, citizens who wish to preserve the republic must refuse to vote for candidates that...

In moments of historical peril, clarity is a moral obligation. When democracy is threatened from within and allies are under siege...

The assassination of Charlie Kirk has provoked uproar, grief, and denunciations across the American political landscape. Yet beyond the...

For years the West has debated the Ukraine war in terms of limits: containment, off-ramps, appeasement, “not losing.” What will have...

From Colbert to Kimmel, from the CDC to ICE, from Voice of America to universities and every institution in between, the Trump 2.0...

The suspension of Jimmy Kimmel and the circumstances surrounding Stephen Colbert are not isolated scandals. They are bellwethers of what...