After 16 years, $700 billion, and 22,000 casualties, it’s time for Afghanistan to find its own course.
Category Archives: International and national
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.
Trump Jr’s Russian meeting isn’t nothing
The senior leaders of the Trump campaign were willing to have a meeting to discuss getting help from the Russian government.
Flake, McCain and the demise of Mitchcare
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell surprisingly concocted an Obamacare replacement, call it Mitchcare, that was actually worth passing.
U.S. sleepwalked into North Korean threat
The problem with seeing national security threats everywhere is that the real ones don’t get the attention they merit.
Pull the plug on an Obamacare replacement and do these three things instead
GOP leaders don’t have the votes, and their alternatives aren’t any better. So, pull the plug on an Obamacare replacement and adopt these three more limited measures instead.