Noah Rothman

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.

Playing the host can enrich our lives. We are social animals, after all.

The boutique priorities of the few have crowded out basic good governance — a problem pronounced in California but apparent wherever the ‘blue state model’ is practiced.

The world will be a safer place in the absence of that regime, but only the Iranian people can be the authors of their liberation.

Democrats would have a better claim to moral authority if, when they condemn efforts to revise January 6 history, they didn’t engage in revisionism themselves.

The surgeon general has decided you should drink less, and he thinks he knows how to make you comply.

In the New Orleans terror attack we saw another example of public officials’ apparent lack of trust that the public can handle the truth.

The neophytes should not be setting the agenda.

But the president should not, realistically, expect anyone to take him up on this.

His criticism is reserved for advocates of retrenchment in Trump’s orbit whose influence is the subject of debate.

One Republican priority should not fall by the wayside: stripping the U.N. Relief and Works Agency of funding.

When the Biden interregnum is remembered at all, it will likely be as a lesson in the perils of governmental overreach.

And what comes next.

Some party leaders just can’t quit identity politics.

The voting public has merely reminded the party that its preferred identity doesn’t match our own lived experience.

It seems Republican voters did not lose their taste for a confident, extroverted American presence on the world stage.

We can only hope her views have shifted over the years, but it seems unlikely.

Republicans should heed the lessons of Democrats’ overreach on the trans issue.

The incoming administration seems torn between two very different outlooks on government.

With your support, NR will continue to buck conformist pressure.

And the Trump administration should not take office operating under the delusion that Biden was somehow too reckless in his management of this conflict.