The Times Rides to Mueller’s Rescue
What caused the FBI to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in July 2016, which evolved into the criminal investigation that is said today to imperil the...
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Will War Cancel Trump’s Triumphs?
How much backing would Trump have for another U.S. war? Who would stand with us, and for how long? ...
Did the FBI Conspire to Stop Trump?
The "dirty dossier," a mixture of fabrications, falsehoods and half-truths, created to destroy Trump and make Hillary president, was the product of a British spy's collusion with Kremlin agents....
Republicans Bet the Farm
By enacting the largest tax cut since the Reagan administration, the heart of which is cutting the corporate rate from 35 to 21 percent, Republicans have boldly bet the...
Who Wants War with Iran — and Why?
A war in the Persian Gulf would send oil prices soaring, and stock markets plummeting, even as it would split us off from our major allies in Europe and...
Unlike Nixon, Trump Will Not Go Quietly
On Aug. 9, 1974, Richard Nixon bowed to the inevitability of impeachment and conviction by a Democratic Senate and resigned. The prospect of such an end for Donald Trump...
What Should We Fight For?
What America needs is a new national consensus on what is vital to us and what is not, what we are willing to fight to defend and what we...
The Nutball the Neocons Wanted in NATO
Do we really want to cede to folks of the temperament of Mikhail Saakashvili an ability to instigate a war with a nuclear-armed Russia, which every Cold War president...
Is Flynn’s Defection a Death Blow?
Trump's general is now the newly conscripted collaborator of the media-Mueller-Democrat-deep state conspiracy to overturn the election of 2016 and bring down the Trump presidency. ...
Little Rocket Man’s Risky Game
Kim Jong Un may understand us better than we do him, which is why he seems less hesitant to invite the risks of a war he cannot win. ...
Why Roy Moore Matters
Why would Christian conservatives in good conscience go to the polls Dec. 12 and vote for Judge Roy Moore, despite the charges of sexual misconduct with teenagers leveled against...
The US-Saudi Starvation Blockade
Yemen today is arguably the worst humanitarian crisis on earth, and America's role in it is undeniable and indispensable. ...
Unserious Nation
How stands John Winthrop's "city upon a hill" this Thanksgiving? How stands the country that was to be "a light unto the nations"? ...
Is America Up for a Second Cold War?
Why is the containment of China in Asia the responsibility of a United States 12 time zones away? ...
Reining in the Rogue Royal of Arabia
If the crown prince of Saudi Arabia has in mind a war with Iran, President Trump should disabuse his royal highness of any notion that America would be doing...
That Bloodbath in the Old Dominion
Tens of millions of Americans are passionately for Trump, and tens of millions are passionately against him. The GOP problem: The latter cohort is equal in intensity but larger...
Red Lines and Lost Credibility
A major goal of this Asia trip, said National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster, is to rally allies to achieve the "complete, verifiable and permanent denuclearization of the Korean...
Their America, and Ours
The spirit that produced the war in the 1860s, and lasting division in the 1960s, is abroad again. A great secession of the heart is underway. ...
That Other Plot — to Bring Down Trump
We have Free Beacon neocons, never-Trump Republicans, the Hillary Clinton campaign, the DNC, a British spy and comrades in Russian intelligence, and perhaps the FBI, all working with secret...
It’s Trump’s Party Now
After the Trumpian revolt, there is no going back. As that most American of writers, Thomas Wolfe, put it, "You can't go home again." Traditionalists have been told that...