Noah Rothman

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.

The Biden administration was too receptive to Moscow’s nuclear hostage-taking tactics. Trump should strike a more stolid posture.

Ukraine has achieved a success on par with Israel’s pager attacks.

The U.N. has invited a crisis of confidence in its own authority and competence.

You didn’t expect the media to focus this whole time on Joe Biden, did you?

We don’t know who is behind them, but undermining Israel in its struggle against Iran should be no one’s idea of ‘America First.

On Russia and beyond, the VP seems to be signaling policy preferences that do not comport with those of the administration he serves.

The MAGA movement can have Trump’s tough talk in lieu of its preferred policy outcomes.

If it succeeds, the benefits to the United States and the West would be immense.

The question Democrats should be asking is not ‘why Afrikaners?’ But they’re too invested in identity politics to think anything else.

Israelis can be forgiven for wondering whether the Netanyahu government has overinvested in its relationship with the Trump administration.

He treated America’s allies like problems to be solved while approaching our adversaries as though they were assets to be unlocked.

America’s irreplaceable contribution to winning that world war and preventing another deserves to be the object of adoration.

Greene again positioned herself far over her skis in her attempt to accuse her colleagues in Congress of subordinating core American values to Israel’s whims.

And stop sugarcoating economic malaise as the cure America needs.

The whole point of this exercise was to convince Trump and those in his orbit that contributing to Europe’s defense against Russian aggression was worth it.

The prospect of renewed negotiations would be more auspicious if the administration had first secured even one of the ambitious objectives it has set for itself abroad.

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?