Whether by accident or by deliberate osmosis, Israel and the United States have adopted similar solutions to their existential problems. Before 2002, during the various Palestinian intifadas, Israel suffered hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries from suicide bombers freely crossing from the West Bank and Gaza into Israel. Published January 22, 2020
Despite its cool Green parties and ambitious wind and solar agendas, Europe remains by far the world's largest importer of oil and natural gas. Published January 15, 2020
The United States would not have to invade Iran to end it as a modern state. A strike against the United States or its overseas military installations would result in a devastating response. Published January 8, 2020
At the very time Miss Maddow was reassuring viewers that Christopher Steele was believable, populist talk-radio and the much-criticized Fox News Channel were insisting that most of Mr. Steele's allegations simply could not be true. Miss Maddow was wrong. Her less-degreed critics proved to be right. Published January 1, 2020
Seventy-five years ago, at the Battle of the Bulge (fought from Dec. 16, 1944, to Jan. 25, 1945), the United States suffered more casualties than in any other battle in its history. Some 19,000 Americans were killed, 47,500 wounded and 23,000 reported missing. Published December 25, 2019
Former FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have lots of things in common. They were deeply involved in the "Russian collusion" hoax. And they participated in the surveillance of the Trump campaign and transition. Published December 18, 2019
No president in modern memory has been on the receiving end of such overwhelmingly negative media coverage and a three-year effort to abort his presidency, beginning the day after his election. Published December 11, 2019
The moral test of our Justice Department, the congressional opposition and the FBI was to give even an often unpopular president some semblance of a fair audit. Published December 4, 2019
President Trump can be indiscreet, even crude, in his speech. But alleged bad thoughts are not crimes -- at least not outside George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984." Published November 27, 2019
Recently, former acting CIA chief John McLaughlin proclaimed in a public forum, "Thank God for the deep state." Former CIA Director John Brennan agreed and praised the "deep state people" for their opposition to Mr. Trump. Published November 20, 2019
From 1967 to 2019, Republicans controlled the California governorship for 31 of 52 years. So why is there currently not a single statewide Republican officeholder? California also has a Democratic governor and Democratic supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature. Only seven of California's 53 congressional seats are held by Republicans. Published November 13, 2019
When socialists gain power, they don't destroy just themselves. They usually take everyone else down with them as well. Published November 6, 2019
About one-third of the nation's welfare recipients live in California. Millions of poor newcomers require enormously expensive state health, housing, education, legal and law-enforcement services. Published October 30, 2019
There are about 5,000 members of the U.S. military, mostly airmen, stationed at the huge, strategically located air base in Incirlik, Turkey, northwest of the Syrian border. The American forces at Incirlik are also the custodians of about 50 B61 nuclear bombs. Published October 23, 2019
A little over 40 years ago, Chinese Communist strongman and reformer Deng Xiaoping began 15 years of sweeping economic reforms. They were designed to end the disastrous, even murderous planned economy of Mao Zedong, who died in 1976. Published October 16, 2019
Our ancestors were builders and pioneers and mostly fearless. We are regulators, auditors, bureaucrats, adjudicators, censors, critics, plaintiffs, defendants, social media junkies and thin-skinned scolds. Published October 9, 2019
In these times of near civil war, Americans agree on almost nothing. Yet, sometime in 2019, almost all of America finally got "woke" on China. Published October 2, 2019
The concept of citizenship is being assaulted on the premodern side by the legal blending of mere residency with citizenship. Published September 25, 2019
Donald Trump has so enraged his Democratic adversaries that the candidates to replace him have moved farther to the left than any primary field in memory. Published September 18, 2019
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is desperate to translate the British public's June 2016 vote to leave the European Union into a concrete Brexit. Published September 11, 2019
