Over the last week, three foreign policy events have dominated the news cycle: The Russian seizure of Ukrainian ships in the Kerch Strait; the CIA’s discovery that Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) ordered the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi; and the storming of our southern border by the Central American migrant...
President Trump announced his intent to end birthright citizenship via executive order last week in an interview with Axios. Consequently, an outpouring of constitutional analysis from both the left and the right commenced: Is birthright citizenship required by the Fourteenth Amendment? Or is it the result of a misreading of the law? Many constitutional scholars,...
John James shouldn’t be afraid to align himself with Trump and the Republican Party. A potential up and coming Republican star, John James has almost all the tools to win Michigan’s Senate seat. The Republican candidate is a young, articulate, black conservative running against Democratic incumbent Debbie Stabenow. James has the dynamic profile Stabenow lacks:...
The full force of the Democratic Party has been deployed in a last-minute smear campaign to prevent the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. First, there was Christine Blasey Ford. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) had been holding her ace in the hole since July: A letter from Ford that claims Kavanaugh attempted to sexually...
For decades, the Beltway offered America an unflinching bipartisan consensus: Free trade, and all of its consequences, is an unmitigated good. Any deficiencies that might arise as are ultimately for the best. But the American people weren’t buying what Washington, D.C., was selling. President Donald Trump’s simple idea on trade is that we live in...