Integrity as a Weapon: The Senate’s New Confirmation Theater
When the opposition's only argument is character, it has run out of arguments about governance.
Opinion
Signed opinion columns and commentary.
The Memphis Equation: When a Shooting Becomes a Campaign
Progressive Democrats are converting four violent deaths into a congressional primary weapon, and nobody in the room is asking what the Memphis Safe Task Force was actually doing.
America Does Not Own the Nerve of Its Own Economy
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company fabricates the majority of the world's most advanced logic chips. A single facility in Hsinchu holds more leverage ov
Tariffs and Energy Are Necessary But Not Sufficient: America Must Build or Remain a Debtor in Its Own House
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
When Judges Become Governors and Governors Become Judges, the Republic Has Already Forgotten Its Own Name
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
The Plow and the Parish Are Not Washington’s to Manage
Across a dozen state legislatures this spring, the same pattern has surfaced with the regularity of bad weather: county commissioners discovering that a federal
The Government Wrote You a Letter and It Means Nothing, Which Is the Point
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
The Bill Came Due and the Rust Belt Paid It
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
The Mob and the Magistrate Cannot Both Win
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
The World Does Not Reward Good Intentions: On Strategy, Power, and the Comfortable Illusions of American Foreign Policy
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