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.
Category Archives: International and national
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.
Biden blames Big Meat, not excessive monetary and fiscal stimulus, for inflation
It used to be mostly unfair to blame Biden for inflation. It has become less so.
Biden’s botched Summit for Democracy
An international summit to forge a sense of common purpose among democracies wasn’t the place to try to score domestic political points.
Term limits for justices a better reform than court expansion
A Biden appointed commission points the way to channel reform energy on the left in a more productive direction.
Help wanted: An inflation hawk for the Fed
The inflation blame game stops at a curious spot.
Time to get serious about economic decoupling with China
A recent report offer a useful starting point for the discussion and policy development.
Booting Gosar off committees was a mistake
Gosar’s vile video warranted censure, even explusion. But if he is to remain a member of the body, Democrats shouldn’t strip him of committee assignments. That denies his constitutents equal representation.