There is a particular kind of American foreign-policy statement that manages to say a great deal without committing to anything. It mentions values, partnership
Somewhere between a political rally and a courthouse, between a social-media threat and an actual weapon raised, the American republic is being asked a question
Thirty years after the promises, the invoice is still being collected from the same people who never signed the contract. The factories are photographs now. The
Somewhere in America right now, a citizen is holding a piece of official correspondence that runs four paragraphs, deploys the phrase "pursuant to the applicabl
Across a dozen state legislatures this spring, the same pattern has surfaced with the regularity of bad weather: county commissioners discovering that a federal
There is a familiar kind of disorder that does not announce itself with cannon fire. It arrives instead through a succession of small usurpations, each one defe
There is a difference between a policy that points in the right direction and a policy that arrives. Washington has spent the better part of two years announcin
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