The ability of North Korea to strike the United States changes the equation, for us and our allies.
Category Archives: International and national
Country goes loco over Confederate statues. Why?
The statues should come down, but they aren’t worth getting this worked up over.
Trump announces the end of his foreign policy
Trump ran on a new direction for American foreign policy. No place was better suited to apply it than Afghanistan. Instead, Trump opted the same old, same old.
Obamacare can’t be stablized without being fixed
The health care plan of the Problem Solvers Caucus, supported by the three Arizona representatives from swing congressional districts, won’t solve the problem.
McCain’s Afghanistan strategy heads down the wrong road
After 16 years, $700 billion, and 22,000 casualties, it’s time for Afghanistan to find its own course.
Befuddled thinking about Arpaio and immigration
Arpaio wasn’t railroaded, but he didn’t get the jury trial guaranteed by the Constitution.
U.S. shouldn’t blur Venezuelan lessons
The most constructive thing the United States can do in Venezuela is stay out of the story.
Jeff Flake doubles down against Donald Trump
In his new book, Conscience of a Conservative, Flake writes Trump out of conservatism and tries to increase the market for a politics of inclusion and expansion.
Democrats don’t really want to fix Obamacare
They just want more subsidies to prop it up as it is.
The scandal behind the Navajo housing scandal
The real obstacle to Native American advancement is a culture of paternalism and dependency embedded in the relationship with the federal government.