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The Obama Administration Is Pretending We’re A Nation Without Borders

The crisis on the border is no longer in the shadows. In broad daylight on Monday planes from Texas landed in San Diego and were met by buses, all transporting more illegal immigrants into the United...

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America’s Foreign Policy Must Be Sustainable In Public Opinion, Too

As 2016 looms, the cadres of experts who would staff a Republican administration continue to wrestle with the lessons of recent history for our current foreign policy challenges. Dozens of articles...

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Three Reasons Douthat Is Right (And Posner Is Wrong) On Impeachment

In a recent column, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat explained the thinking behind the White House’s recent warnings that a Republican Congress will impeach President Obama.  Douthat linked the...

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Bobby Jindal Pwns Other Governors On Common Core

This morning, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is set to announce he’s suing the federal government over Common Core. He’s already embroiled in three Louisiana lawsuits over Common Core, and recently...

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Mike Pence Makes A Change, Rejects Federal Preschool Power Grab

Fort Wayne, Ind. — The Federalist has hammered Indiana Gov. Mike Pence for caving on Medicaid and Common Core, which can seem a little mean if one thinks it’s okay to ignore present poor judgment on...

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Three Lies About Obamacare Jonathan Gruber Accidentally Revealed

For all the hand-wringing over economist Jonathan Gruber’s comments about “the stupidity of the American voter,” there’s been less outrage over the official obfuscation of Obamacare that his comments...

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A Lay Person’s Guide To The States’ Immigration Lawsuit Against DHS

Led by Texas Attorney General and soon-to-be-governor Greg Abbott, 17 states have sued the United States and the Department of Homeland Security because of the Obama administration’s immigration...

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We Live In The Age Of The Bully

If there was any doubt that the Age of the Bully was truly upon us, the news of this past week should dispel it. The psychotic dictatorship of North Korea—a militarized basket-case pariah nation that...

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Progressivism or Judicial Review: Choose One

On any given day a list of Big Progressivism’s most dangerous enemies would include the usual politically-incorrect suspects: entrepreneurs, independent thinkers, devout Christians, and trigger-word...

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Obama Keeps Bowing In The Middle East

At the World Economic Forum last week, Secretary of State John Kerry argued that while extremists may cite Islam as a justification for terrorism, the world should refrain from using the term “Islamic...

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How The Iran Bill Weakens Senate Oversight While Trying To Preserve It

What profits it a man to gain the world but lose his soul? About the same as it profits the Senate to gain a chance to advise the president on his nuclear agreement with Iran, but surrender its...

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Dear Marco Rubio: Lots Of Things Are More Important Than ‘Safety’

Marco Rubio’s campaign webpage prominently features this assertion: “nothing matters if we aren’t safe.” Nothing? Maybe I’m being oversensitive to this kind of appeal, and I realize it’s just...

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The First Principle Of U.S. Foreign Policy

What is the first principle of American foreign policy? This seems like rather an important question as we approach the selection of another commander in chief in an era of growing global instability,...

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The GOP Is Incoherent On Iraq Because Democracies Can’t Wage War

The ongoing debate among GOP candidates about whether we should have invaded Iraq in 2003 and what we should do about ISIS underscores a rather uncomfortable reality: it is nearly impossible for a...

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Sanctuary Cities Represent The Worst Kind Of Liberal Lawlessness

So let me get this straight: America is thrown into an overwrought political debate about the Confederate battle flag—a relic that has absolutely nothing to do with the shooting in Charleston—but is...

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How The Iraq War Led To Obama’s Iran Deal

When the British surrendered at Yorktown almost 234 years ago, Lord Cornwallis’s band played a tune called “The World Turned Upside Down.” With news of the U.S. nuclear agreement with Iran some 34...

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Voters Turn To Trump Because They Have No Confidence In Government

As we pick apart the candidates’ performances Wednesday night in the GOP primary debate, at least some Republicans must be wondering why, with so many experienced officeholders in the race, they cannot...

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Court Restrains The Puddle Police—For Now

The Environmental Protection Agency is encroaching on private land through the Clean Water Act, but several states are fighting back, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has issued a...

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Daniel Drezner On ISIS, Putin, And The American Erosion Of Trust

Daniel Drezner, international politics professor at Tufts University and a regular contributor to the Washington Post, discussed Obama’s strategy against Syria and ISIS, the American erosion of trust...

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Olivier Knox on Paris, Obama’s Press Relationships and Gifts from Saudi Kings

Olivier Knox, chief Washington correspondent for Yahoo News, was born to a French mother and an American father and has been a reporter in both America and France, giving him a unique perspective when...

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