To negotiate when our strategic objective is within our grasp risks failing to achieve it.

By: Tom Cotton – wsj.com – June 10, 2025 When local police can’t restore order, the federal government has a duty to do so with a show of force. Violent insurrectionists turned areas of Los Angeles into lawless hellscapes over the weekend, with anarchists setting fire to vehicles, throwing scooters and debris at police, and looting businesses—all while waving foreign...

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – June 11, 2025 The absurd L.A. freak-out. President Trump’s activation of the California National Guard has launched a thousand op-eds warning of his authoritarianism. “This Is What Autocracy Looks Like,” Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times declares. Edward Luce of the Financial Times maintains: “Sending the National Guard into LA is the administration’s...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – June 8, 2025 Trump has a mandate, but protests in California show the trouble that might lie ahead. Rounding up and deporting millions of illegal migrants was never going to go down without protest. But President Trump is determined to do it, and no one can say he didn’t tell voters during the...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – June 3, 2025 The American homeland is also vulnerable to drone and missile attacks. By now Americans know about Ukraine’s remarkable drone strike on Sunday that damaged as many as 40 aircraft deep inside Russia as strategic bombers sat like ducks in a row on military bases. One urgent lesson beyond that conflict...

Lawmakers released legislation Sunday that includes nearly $25 billion of funding to begin work for President Trump’s Golden Dome initiative.

In the military, we believe that your enemy’s reality must become your own, or it will be at a time of grave disadvantage. Let’s put all silly pretense aside and come to the realization that Communist China is our number one geopolitical foe—they see us as such. China has enacted such egregious actions against the United States since we foolishly...

  By: Kimberley A. Strassel – wsj.com – March 27, 2025 Now that Democrats agree secrecy is important, let’s see some investigations. Two Washington Post reporters last August revealed a “secret criminal investigation” into a presidential administration with a story based on “thousands of pages of government records, including sealed court filings and exhibits,” as well as interviews with at...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – February 24, 2025 The land of the free votes with Russia on a Ukraine war resolution. The United Nations is no great moral arbiter of anything, but at least the United States has tried over the years to have that group of nations recognize the truth about bad actors. That wasn’t the case...

There’s moral equivalence, and then there’s a total moral inversion.