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Trump can set all the deadlines he wants. Iraq can’t disarm Iran’s militias

The Sept. 30 deadline for Iraq’s militias to surrender their weapons is approaching, and Baghdad is already looking beyond it. That should surprise no...

America built the interstates. Now it takes 20 years to run a wire

Throughout American history, there have been moments when building on an enormous scale has been a national necessity. Think of how the New Deal...

The world’s worst human rights violators just gathered in NYC to lecture Israel

It’s United Nations General Assembly high-level week, and you know what that means: high-level dignitary pageantry, high-level meetings on sensitive issues, high-level decision-making for...

America’s AI guardrails are so broken they’re driving us straight to China

This week, President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, days after Anthropic’s Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow...

Guns. Voting. Climate. Three Supreme Court cases will make or break originalism

With the Supreme Court’s new term beginning in October, it will hear disputes over semiautomatic rifles, voter registration, and climate change. The subjects have...

They thanked Israel in private. Then they staged a UN walkout

I attended Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address at the United Nations, expecting a contentious speech. What stayed with me was the decision by...

Our inner-city public schools suck, and the Democrats don’t care

When people write about inner-city public schools, they like to use fun metaphors such as “the 3 R’s” or “an apple for the teacher.”...

‘Oct. 7 was horrific, but…’: Why the UN walked out before Netanyahu said a word

Before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could make Israel’s case to the United Nations on Thursday, scores of diplomats got up and left. They...

The world is ticking on an AI clock. The UN is still set to 1945

The U.N. General Assembly 81 arrived in New York under the theme of restoring trust and managing transformation. By the opening of the General...

A City Hall security guard told me to ‘pick up a rifle,’ then I was the one in handcuffs

My wife and I moved from New York City to Burlington, Vermont, approximately 11 years ago for her medical residency. We’re raising two kids...
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