Noah Rothman

The party’s rebranding is about to be tested.

For now, the Trump administration seems to be leaning tentatively toward engagement.

Even stalwart Trump allies have voiced hostility toward the administration’s diplomatic overtures.

In progressive politics, the consumer gets what the consumer wants — and that is to wallow in catastrophism.

Insisting that only the violence of the right is worth highlighting while rationalizing and downplaying that of the left will lead to more of it.

We’re only just beginning to experience the unintended and unpredictable consequences of the tariff experiment.

Showerheads and gas stoves may seem like small beer, but there’s a lot to be said for making people happy.

Democrats struggled to make the most of Trump’s on-again, off-again trade war.

What else could you call the agenda that’s being endorsed?

Trump has engineered something like a sanctions regime targeting Americans.

We should have learned that lesson from Richard Nixon’s wage and price controls.

It’s a transparent strategy aimed at conveying authenticity, which undermines the whole point of the strategy.

Officials have responded to the text-thread security failure and other weighty controversies with sass and indifference.

Ensuring that the country’s campuses protect the rights of all their students is of vital importance.

In a case of unilateral disarmament in the propaganda war, the Trump administration functionally mothballed the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

‘Resistance’ reruns are all the rage, but are they working?

Second terms are often messy affairs, but the wheels are coming off this one far too early.

It has been nothing less than a national embarrassment to watch Republicans fish for a rationale that justifies what they’re talking themselves into.

Some intrepid researchers saw this coming.

Trump’s clash with the WHCA is nothing to celebrate, but there’s blame to go around.

If Democrats hope to establish a contrast with Trump, they could not pick a worse standard-bearer than New York’s former governor.

A memo from the DNC chairman makes clear there will be no course correction.

Certainly, the prospect of U.S. deployments to Ukraine amid a shooting war with Russia ups the ante.

Musk is fulminating against the National Endowment for Democracy without understanding the critical role it plays.

The president and his party are laying claim to a political monopoly on convenience and consumer choice.

Of all the disorienting revelations voters imposed on Democrats, young voters’ departure from their ranks may be the most bewildering.

Nobody did this to you, environmental activists. You did it to yourselves.

The regional actors he needs to attract to the coalition were drawn by its focus on Iran at the expense of the Palestinian issue. So much for that.

They don’t need self-indulgent lectures on how to be more off-putting. They’ve already got the act down pat.

The off-ramp is clear. It’s a wonder that more Democrats don’t just take it.