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Category Archives: International and national
The limits on U.S. support for Ukraine
The risks to the United States from more direct intervention on behalf of Ukraine are impossible to assess. Staying within the mainstream of the European concensus, as the Biden administration has done, is the right course.
Democrats’ best hope for 2022: Republicans
The political stupidity of the lawsuit by the Arizona Republican Party to have mail ballots declared unconstitutional is difficult to overstate.
Biden’s State of the Union hit an inflation road bump
Inflation is its own truth test. Come November, it will either contine to be elevated and eroding standards of living, or it won’t.
Putin unites Europe
The initiative and resolve a united Europe has mounted against Putin’s invasion of Ukraine may be a historical turning point. To be sustainable, however, requires institutional reforms, including of NATO.
Mark Kelly’s political flinch on gas prices
Suspending the gas tax while unnecessarily subsidizing EV charging stations reflects muddled thinking about both inflation and climate change.
Respond to the Russia-China alliance with strategic patience
The joint statement issued by Putin and Xi was a defensive rationalization for the legitimacy of their regimes, not an expression of confidence about the future.
Brnovich’s border security opinion is sloppy and misleading
The U.S. Constitution doesn’t give Arizona a right to “engage in war” at the southern border.
US shouldn’t have played Putin’s game
Why is the United States Russia’s primary interlocutor on Ukraine, when our security interests there are, at most, peripheral?
Sinema should accept the message and become an independent
Sinema is wrong about the filibuster, but the attacks on her by progressives are demagogic nonsense.