The failure at Hanoi should have shown the administration that insisting on North Korea’s total disarmament was a dead end, but instead Bolton has taken full advantage of the breakdown in talks to make sure that diplomacy with North Korea won’t produce anything at all.

Like several other regional clients, Israel has increasingly become a liability for the U.S.

Tacky or not, America’s commercial strips and “placeless places” have developed their own historic, layered aesthetic.

The crisis there has reached a breaking point, and the ball is in the president’s court.

Also: What theft takes, and more.

It is only permitted to observe public acts of deviant sexuality if you are prepared to praise them as progressive

As some lawmakers push to criminalize BDS, a pro-Palestinian, free speech Left is rising up.

What we’re living through isn’t ‘socialism’ per se — but it echoes one of the worst periods of socialist tyranny

The hardening of the administration position tells us that they completely misunderstand why the Hanoi summit failed.

Victor Davis Hanson sees in the president shades of Achilles and Ajax. And maybe that’s just what the country needs.

The Krassenstein brothers are the Diamond and Silk of the Left, absurd partisans for our silly age.

The same conventional Republicans who sidetracked the president on immigration are at it again on foreign policy.

Most Americans today aren’t openly hostile to religion; they’re just apathetic.

Ireland’s descent into hating its Christian patrimony

Nothing. That should teach us most of the world’s crises are none of Washington’s business.

We continue to warn against the folly of wars of choice and the dangers of enabling reckless clients.

Also: A Jewish guide to the Old Testament, and more.

He was a decent journalist and for a while a good conservative gatekeeper. Then it all went awry.

Ethiopia is a success story. But hatred of its native Tigrayans is causing some to think nervously of Rwanda.

Their coalitions are co-existing uneasily—which could mean a shift and even a third-party challenger.

Seventeen years on, our attempts to help have led to suffering, misery, and a barbaric Afghan state.

More like “facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists.”

Especially when they are used to try to force radical changes to a regime’s security policies.

Companies like FamilyTree claim to chart your ancestry but are secretly in cahoots with the government.

Each day that U.S. support for the war continues is another day that we are responsible for enabling countless war crimes and the crime of mass starvation.

Hard-right Brazilian president criticizes pervs at Carnival. Liberals pounce

Also: Losing a Picasso, in praise of Pierre Reverdy, and more.

‘A border security and humanitarian crisis’ says US official

In our absurd era, more and more Americans are beginning to wonder who they really are.

Obscure law guarantees bailout protections for a handful of ‘too big to fail’ institutions.

Has the White House thought through the implications of his Secretary of State’s loaded rhetoric?