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May 25, 2026
Trump’s War Is Staggering to an Incoherent Defeat
Even the president’s supporters are alarmed.
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May 19, 2026
Why Does Donald Trump Refuse to Defend America?
The president has long articulated a moral equivalence between the country’s interests and those of dictatorships.
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May 13, 2026
The Trump Counterterrorism Strategy Is a Dangerous Joke
The policy is unfocused, run by amateurs, and concerned more with the president’s many grievances than the security of the United States.
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April 26, 2026
We Cannot Harden the World Against Every Attacker
Tragedy was averted at a Washington hotel, but such moments will happen again.
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April 25, 2026
Where Is Tulsi Gabbard?
Her irrelevance during a war suggests that America doesn’t need a director of national intelligence.
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April 16, 2026
Pope James David Vance the First
The vice president has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Leo XIV.
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April 14, 2026
Trump’s Meltdown
Attacking the pope was only part of the president’s disturbing night on Truth Social.
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April 7, 2026
Did Trump Just Threaten to Use Nuclear Weapons in Iran?
If such an order comes to pass, the military can and must refuse.
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April 3, 2026
Hegseth’s War on America’s Military
Someone needs to explain the Pentagon purges to the American people.
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April 2, 2026
Maybe Trump Should Not Have Given This Speech
His address raised more questions than it answered about the war in Iran.
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March 30, 2026
Pete Hegseth’s Shameless Vice Signaling
The secretary of bombast is trolling America.
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March 20, 2026
Trump Had No Plan B for Iran
And it shows.
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March 7, 2026
An Epidemic of ‘Victory Disease’
The president is pointing to the American military’s excellence as though that somehow constitutes a strategy in itself.
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March 4, 2026
Pete Hegseth Treats Fallen American Soldiers as a PR Problem
His use of the Iran war dead to attack the media was disgraceful.
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March 2, 2026
Trump Has Given America a Constitutional Dilemma
Congress should not have to argue over whether to trigger the War Powers Resolution, and certainly not in the midst of conflict.
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February 28, 2026
Trump’s Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran
A few paths to success, many to failure
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February 27, 2026
The Undiplomatic Diplomats
Some of the president’s ambassadors keep getting into needless conflicts abroad.
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February 25, 2026
President Trump’s State-of-the-Union Variety Show
Were you not entertained?
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