Noah Rothman

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.

Congressional Republicans who choose to defer to the president-elect’s worst instincts will do him, themselves, their party, and the country no favors.

His early personnel choices indicate his incoming administration would be willing to use sticks as well as carrots to deal with Russia.

But the public’s economic outlook is still the most straightforward explanation for voters’ rejection of the incumbent party last week.

Depressed leftists who blame Trump voters for Kamala Harris’s loss are only marginalizing themselves further.

When not vague or entirely mum, she has promised to continue Biden’s foreign policy. In other words, failure on an international scale.

Far from being craven warmongers, Liz Cheney, John Bolton, and other Republicans Trump and his supporters loathe advocate stable deterrence.

Voters are presented with a choice between two gratingly flip campaigns that are consumed with frivolities.

The Harris campaign fumbles the play in trying to connect with male voters.

The sitting president’s ‘lock him up’ gaffe is the latest example of how he’s a drag on his vice president’s campaign.