4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (117+ words) The Trump administration announced a small change to the draft registration rules—and people immediately declared it to be an authoritarian plot, writes Nicholas Clairmont. As news sites like Military Times first reported last week, the government is moving ahead…...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago   (411+ words) The Free Press Well, there is a ceasefire. Or perhaps not. It includes Lebanon. Or it doesn’t. Iran’s 10-point plan is an acceptable working document for the United States. Or it isn’t the one U.S. negotiators saw. The Strait…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (144+ words) Israel says the ayatollah is dead, and a source with intimate knowledge of the operation says that plans for the ‘day after’ have long been in the works, writes Michael Doran. Black smoke rises from the rubble of Ali Khamenei’s…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (200+ words) Business has never been better for lobbyists paid to push the agendas of foreign countries and companies, but critics say the surge undermines Trump’s ‘America First’ pledge. The reelection of Donald Trump, as his former adviser Steve Bannon recently told…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (223+ words) Kevin Warsh is a good pick for the Fed—if he is willing to stand up to Trump, writes former Obama economist Jason Furman. In 2006, a booker for CNBC asked me to go on the air and argue against Kevin…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (229+ words) A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism. In 25 years of attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, I have never heard the Europeans as worked up as they are about Donald…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (233+ words) Author of The Revolt of the Public, former CIA analyst, presently a Visiting Fellow at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University The forcible removal of strongman Nicolás Maduro at the hands of U.S. special forces from his bedroom…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (206+ words) On Monday, I asked Petraeus for his thoughts about the capture of Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration’s policy toward Venezuela, and whether Americans should brace themselves for another long war. For a limited time, get 20% off a subscription to The…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (74+ words) Niall Ferguson and Elliott Abrams join Rafaela Siewert to discuss the latest developments. In the early hours of Saturday morning, Venezuelans awoke to the sound of U.S. helicopters overhead. Per President Donald Trump, the U.S. conducted a “large-scale strike” on facilities in…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (158+ words) It is tempting to think that the regime will implode without him, but the Venezuelan leaders who are left could make life even nastier. First things first: The stunningly audacious raid that extracted Nicolás Maduro and his wife from Venezuela…...