President Donald Trump is a unique political figure, both his admirers and detractors would agree. But as he decides whether to become directly involved in Israel’s military strikes against Iran, some comparisons can be made to several of his predecessors. Like Ronald Reagan, Trump’s opponents have cast him as a warmonger despite a much more […]

Senate Republicans have a new messenger-in-chief as Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) embarks on a media blitz to sell President Donald Trump‘s agenda. Thune has been scheduling interviews on a near-daily basis as the Senate prepares to vote on Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” He started the week with an appearance on Shannon Bream’s Fox News […]

In the opening pages of his 1940 novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway recites the English writer John Donne’s famous poem from centuries past. “Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” Both works warn about the dangers of hubris. On Friday the 13th, the bell began to […]

Israel‘s preemptive strikes against arch-enemy Iran, and a tacit green light by the United States to continue, have capped years of aggressive international economic sanctions. Combined with diplomacy, with recent diplomatic efforts to head off Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons, it’s all set the stage for the Iranian regime’s deep vulnerability. This would have been […]