Noah Rothman

Appointees who represent the biggest departures from convention are the squeakiest wheels, and not in a good way.

Nate Silver seems somehow unfamiliar with the decade of remorseless political warfare waged by Democrats. Here’s a refresher.

The Democratic Party’s problems run even deeper than its operational headaches.

Will Russia have the chance to challenge NATO on the cheap?

The Russian president is demanding a steep price for peace — on terms so favorable for Moscow that it would likely be a temporary reprieve.

‘State capitalism’ never works.

Their reaction to Trump’s D.C. police takeover is unconvincing.

With Mamdani-like indifference, the AP published a hand-wringing exposé about the suffering Israel inflicted on Hezbollah and the souls caught in its orbit.

Teachers’ unions and their allies should be afraid.

The fact that the Court is prepared to review what the left regards as a foundational element of anti-discrimination law may come as a shock to some. It shouldn’t.

Anthony Aguilar’s extraordinary assertions about Israel lack even ordinary evidence.

The idea that the Smithsonian Institution caved under pressure from the president’s appointees needs firmer evidence.

There is real hardship in Gaza, but the situation on the ground is more complicated than Israel’s critics make it out to be.

Sooner or later, Republicans will learn to regret the precedents they’re enabling today.

How dare President Trump try to make streets safe for the privileged.

Courtesy of Rahm Emanuel and Zohran Mamdani.

The cancellation was a sound business decision, even though progressives are convinced that greater forces were covertly at work.

The bitterness of the very online right is unlikely to register with the vast majority of GOP voters.

‘The public thinks, well, if a member of Congress can attack ICE, why can’t we?

For years, progressives have been assured by those they trust that America is comprehensively defective. The latest polling reflects this.

A tidy Huffington Post thesis explains it all.

The ‘deep state’ abides, in a different form.

To their chagrin, Trump showed that the selective use of force can achieve desirable outcomes and advance U.S. interests.

Their denial about the reality of Iran’s nuclear program has opened a rift with Trump.

The role that the United States will play in this campaign in the coming days remains the biggest question mark of the endeavor.

Defanging the Iranian regime, if successful, will contribute to a more stable and peaceful status quo in the region.

For one, the regime is the foremost state sponsor of terrorism on earth.

A combustible situation is set to unfold this weekend, and too many stakeholders have an interest in seeing it combust.

But if they want to restore their brand, they’ll have to realize that masked arsonists burning down cities must not really be their people.

The Democratic Party’s experience with Jean-Pierre probably won’t produce any transformative realizations, but it should.