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Reality has a vote, in politics as in entertainment

Reality has a vote. That is one lesson administered to the body of politics in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second...

Qatar’s quiet campaign: How Doha is buying America

In the early days of the second Trump administration, while America focuses on domestic priorities and global challenges, Qatar is executing a calculated influence...

Karen Bass wants to weaken LAPD to fix a self-inflicted budget crisis

Los Angeles is such a poorly run city that Mayor Karen Bass has to weaken the city’s police department even further for budgetary purposes. Bass...

‘Warfare’ is a zoomed-in view of combat stripped to its essentials

When I settled into my plush theater seat to view Warfare on its opening weekend, I had done no research about the film. I...

The State Department needs reform, but killing its Africa bureau only benefits China

The Trump administration reportedly is preparing to halve the State Department’s budget and, in one of the most far-reaching reorganizations in the department’s history,...

Destructive California policies switch from Left to Right

The idea of purging the homeless, through initiatives such as drug decriminalization, is no longer in fashion. That doesn’t stop the ideological pendulum from...

Cutting interest rates would be a terrible idea

President Donald Trump escalated his fairly one-sided war of words this week with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, whom he nominated for the position in 2017. “‘Preemptive...

Pope Francis failed John Paul II’s moral test on Ukraine

“Be not afraid.” When Pope John Paul II uttered those words in 1979, they resonated far beyond his native Warsaw, Poland. His proclamation was...

An Oregon house bill would greenlight political lawfare

Tens of millions of Americans deal with differing levels of fraud every year, so many that, in Oregon, Attorney General Dan Rayfield has made...

Trump cannot give up on Ukraine peace before pressuring Russia

President Donald Trump is growing impatient with efforts to negotiate an end to Russia’s war against Ukraine. Reflecting on negotiations, he recently warned, “There’s...
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