Rich Lowry

Getting back to the moon is nice, but it is a manned mission to Mars that should be our ultimate objective.

A key element of Iran’s strategy has been to impose economic pain on the Gulf states to force them to press the United States into staying its hand.

That we now have a cabinet secretary who is a plumber is something to be welcomed rather than mocked.

What Columbus pulled off was the equivalent, in today’s terms, of traveling to Mars in a jerry-rigged spacecraft.

Our times are likely to become only more consequential and perilous, making NR more necessary than ever.

Intelligence officials shouldn’t be conspiracy theorists.

The isolationist right is convinced that President Trump is waging the Iran War on Israel’s behalf.

If our forces can’t restore free navigation, it will represent a significant failure of a traditional pillar of U.S. power.

There’s no doubt that Trump’s vision of the Middle East is more in keeping with U.S. interests than Obama’s.

Hey, some people in New York City throw bombs, and others don’t.

The ousted DHS secretary took a serious role and made it like something out of Veep.

We now know that all the scorn that has been poured on missile defense over the years was perverse and wrong.

AOC’s time at the Munich conference was another reminder that no matter how much she is billed as a rising star, she is still callow and unserious.

Gu skis for China, a choice that is a little like deciding to represent a fascist country during the 1930s.

Sad to say, he’s late to the game. Americans began calling themselves Americans in the 1700s.

None of this is worthy of a state with one of the finest political traditions in America.

That’s not what Alex Pretti was.

More than 200 years after the Kentucky Resolutions, a version of nullification still lives.

He should simply comply with the subpoena and not flirt with a prosecution that would be expensive and time-consuming for him.

What we’re seeing in Minneapolis is not peaceful protest.

The Iranians may be able to cajole Trump into negotiations, but they will never be able to push him around, and they disregard his threats at their peril.

Trump’s taste for gilding everything can be over the top. It’d be a national service, though, if he manages to make the U.S. defense budget golden.

Zohran Mamdani’s housing official represents a tradition that has ruined countries.

Even the results-oriented Trump foreign policy needs to distinguish between friend and foe.

Donald Trump carries on in TR’s tradition.

The HHS secretary, to say the least, isn’t always very careful about evidence, but, on this one, the most painstaking research is on his side.

We are in the equivalent of a space race, and the Vermont socialist is talking about cutting off our supply of rocket fuel.

The atrocity at Bondi Beach was heartrending and all too predictable.

Tucker Carlson finds an alluring alternative to the United States.

We should, by all means, breathe new life into a doctrine that in recent decades has become a museum curiosity.