This is a consequential presidency.

There are those in our Nation who take an oath but bring dishonor, shame, and violation of that sacred bond upon themselves.

The agency is enforcing immigration law.

The U.S. is quietly ramping up defense spending to nearly $1 trillion, despite claims to the contrary.

The facts of war in the 21st century. ‘Ukraine Attacks Russian Air Bases in Far-Reaching Drone Strikes,” the Washington Post reported on June 1. “How Israel’s Mossad Smuggled Drone Parts to Attack Iran From Within,” the Wall Street Journal reported two weeks later. And just like that, the future of warfare has become today’s headline news.

By: Ammon Blair – washingtonexaminer.com – May 29, 2025 Using the National Guard to help with border security is hardly unprecedented. In fact, it has a long tradition in American history. The Department of Homeland Security has requested 20,000 National Guard troops to assist its efforts to secure the southern U.S. border, a move the media has declared “unprecedented.” It’s not. In 1916, after...

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – July 8, 2025 ‘The public thinks, well, if a member of Congress can attack ICE, why can’t we?’ The sun had not yet peaked above the horizon over a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility in McAllen, Texas, when the first shots rang out. At around 6 a.m. on Monday, CBP officers hit the ground as “many...

It is hard even to digest the incredible train of events of the last few days in the Middle East. Iran had been reduced to an anemic, performance-art missile attack on our base in Qatar—the last…

By: Jonah Goldberg – thedispatch.com –  June 25, 2025 Applying a cost-benefit analysis to the Iran strike. When events are moving fast, it sometimes makes more sense to talk about how to think about events rather than what to think. Washington is full of people desperate to win the argument about what to think about the last couple weeks. Trump...

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – June 25, 2025 The ‘deep state’ abides, in a different form. No one at the Pentagon who compiled the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) preliminary, “low confidence” assessment of the battle damage done by the United States to Iran’s nuclear facilities intended that analysis as a political document. Those who leaked this highly classified review...