Trading Readiness for a Relationship
Scaling back joint exercises with South Korea in exchange for a pleasant rapport with Pyongyang is not diplomacy — it is unilateral disarmament by sentiment.
Opinion
Signed opinion columns and commentary.
The Long Island Calculation
A president visiting a police academy before midterms is not a civics lesson; it is a targeting exercise, and the only question worth asking is whether the target is real.
Ninety Dollars and Rising: The Strait of Hormuz Is a Verdict on American Energy Dependency
When a chokepoint in the Persian Gulf can erase a decade of complacency in a week, the republic has not secured its energy; it has merely rented it.
The Amber Trap: How a Single Metaphor Is Dissolving Originalism from Within
When every justice on the Court reaches for the same phrase to escape the fixed meaning of law, the phrase has ceased to clarify and begun to corrode.
What We Owe the Smallest Americans
The federal government is proposing to hand Head Start to the states, and the forgotten children in the poorest counties will pay the price.
The States Stir, and We Should Not Sleep Through It
When governors of both parties arrive at the same complaint about federal power, something more than partisan theater is being performed.
The Court Cannot Build a Shipyard
Judicial review of tariff authority is a legitimate constitutional question, but the republic's productive weakness is not a problem any judge can solve.
The Price of Annexation Talk: How Washington Turned a Reliable Ally Into a Negotiating Adversary
When you tell a neighbor he cannot survive without you and then slap him with 50-percent tariffs, you have not gained leverage — you have manufactured a coalition against yourself.
The Sheriff Comes Home
When Washington abandons the consumer protection field, state attorneys general fill the vacuum — and that is not entirely a bad thing.
The Doctor’s Diagnosis Is the Disease
When a physician declares American democracy clinically dead, he is not practicing medicine — he is practicing politics with borrowed authority.