Does it matter if China supplants the United States? Only if we desire a more or less liberal international order.

Turkey demonstrates why it is time to go back to the Trump school of realism in international affairs.

Is “China Joe” Biden really going to stand up to his paymasters in China and embarrass them in their big global publicity moment?

When will we “underlings” stand up to the corporate giants and act like Americans again?

Without accountability we cannot have a country.

Unapologetic anti-Semites and anti-American zealots, sadly, are now steering one of America's two leading political parties.

Avenging 9/11 and preventing its recurrence was justification for putting enormous effort and money into unrelated or even counterproductive activities the ruling class sold to us as antiterrorism. 

Anti-white racism and ignorant attacks on the American founding, not “white supremacy” and “domestic extremism,” constitute the greatest threats we face.

How could so much life and so many trillions have been invested, only to gain what we now have?

Those who seek to legitimize the Taliban only serve to delegitimize themselves.

By focusing too much on Joe Biden and his bad decisions during the withdrawal, the politicians, generals, and experts responsible for these preliminary failures are let off the hook.

To Understand U.S. Response to Taliban, Look at Syria and Libya

Youth may be “wasted on the young,” but many old men have sent children off to die.

Somehow our new woke Pentagon is hell-bent on losing the trust of the American people—along with the wars it fights abroad.

Afghanistan has been reinvented as the best-equipped terrorist nation in the world, basking in the prestige of humiliating the world’s superpower.

Are we ready for the 20th anniversary of September 11? Our enemies certainly are. 

Party leaders may tweet “America First!” but when push comes to shove, they still act like neocons.

With an assist from Fyodor Dostoyevsky
and H. G. Wells.

More time in Afghanistan, and more Afghans in our homeland, will not contribute to our national priorities.

Perhaps the only useful result of the Afghan enterprise’s clamorous collapse is the widespread recognition that we are not seeing the results of discrete choices about foreign policy.