Andrew C. McCarthy

Unlike the gangs allegedly behind the ships targeted in the Caribbean, groups backed by Turkey’s leader engage in what federal law defines as terrorist activity.

The president has been ordered to pay $5 million, and he may be on the hook for much more.

This is not how the protection of concretely described privacy interests is supposed to work.

The war powers resolution taken up by the Senate this past week — along with the angst over it — is part of a show.

‘Death to America’ is not just a slogan.

I didn’t want this, but I can’t say it was unforeseeable.

For now, there are many questions about who was conspiring to do what, and how.

Eminent public figures have been brought low because they associated with Epstein, while Democratic candidates’ past lives are apparently out of bounds.

Trump can turn to the courts.

The DOJ is still trying to use that potential outcome as a carrot to induce him to plead guilty. Africa is the stick.

The commitment is almost certainly not enforceable, for several reasons.

Lawfare and misconduct are not mutually exclusive.

The Dem nominee for a House seat in New Jersey was a sympathizer of the Blind Sheikh, who inspired the first World Trade Center bombing.

Whatever his gang connections may be, Abrego would have been deported months ago were it not for government gamesmanship.

The Trump DOJ clarified that E. Jean Carroll is not under investigation, though Dem donor Reid Hoffman might be.

Once again, Trump is doing what Democrats did, just far more ostentatiously.

Raúl Castro was indicted by the Trump DOJ for lethal attacks against civilians in 1996.

This is such an unseemly arrangement that it was omitted from the settlement document.

Subpoenas have begun to fly over reporting on the Iran military campaign.

The frustration of the two justices who wrote scathing dissents is easy to understand.

There’s no avoiding blunt reality.

Prosecutors simply don’t have a case.

If you dismiss the possibility of this Ilhan Omar–backed candidate winning, you haven’t been paying attention.

It’s a bogus claim that nevertheless finds no shortage of support among transnational progressives and Trump populists.

Powell is sufficiently offended by the investigation that he could spite Trump by staying on the Fed Board as a voting member until his term expires.

Top Justice Department officials ought to stay off social media, for the DOJ’s own good.

Madman theory doesn’t work against other madmen.

There are no ‘civilians,’ in the Western sense, in Iran, and the IRGC uses the infrastructure for its war aims.

When America loses a war, it is generally because of political reaction at home, notwithstanding smashing success on the battlefield.

As NR has documented for decades, the jihad never ceased.