Noah Rothman

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.

Although Trump’s supporters are too quick to attribute his eccentricities to genius, it’s hard to imagine a more conventional president taking such a leap.

The Pentagon is filling up fast with skeptics of American hegemony.

Envoy Steve Witkoff’s handling of negotiations with Hamas is a troubling sign.

Early indications suggest that mainstream Democrats welcome their emancipation from these initiatives.

The world looks different from behind the Resolute Desk.

Both edges of the political spectrum appear to have convinced themselves that the remedy to lax penalties for the other side’s violent rioters is lax penalties for their own.

His agenda-item-filled second inaugural address set a tone that could serve his administration well.

Botching the small details only gives critics license to revel in their sense of superiority, even when the big-picture allegations are correct.

But the menace that is the ‘tech-industrial complex’ will have to compete for space within Democratic heads among so many other existential right-wing threats.

Americans were just treated to a variety of spurious allegations by two onetime State Department employees.