Just think of it as an up-front investment, one that will pay dividends down the road.

On the danger of identity politics and mob rule

The administration needs to face up to the reality that North Korean disarmament isn’t happening.

That obnoxious Dutch historian deserved what he got from the host

Also: An interview with John Williams’s wife, and more.

The Democratic Party may be marching leftward too quickly even for him.

What if the U.S. and UK were opposed by much of Eurasia? Halford MacKinder foresaw it and we may be heading toward it.

It’s going to take more than policy gimmicks to compete with the growing allure of victimology.

In our everyone-gets-a-trophy society, people are quick to claim authority where they don’t have it.

It is easy to believe that Trump entertained the idea of war with Venezuela for the express purpose of seizing their oil resources.

Jussie Smollett makes it harder to believe that violent haters really are out there

With more real-world social rules, we can make Twitter and Facebook work for us if we try.

The Venezuelan people are the ones being made to pay the price for their government’s wrongdoing.

The only ‘national emergency’ is a president who violates the Constitution to get his way.

Also: The year of Bo Jackson, living with epilepsy, and more.

Sanders is going to be crippled by identity politics — but the GOP had better take him seriously

The survey is another piece of evidence that Americans increasingly favor greater restraint in foreign policy after almost two decades of unceasing foreign wars.

World’s greatest female athlete — a lesbian — says trans women shouldn’t compete as women. Gay commissars pounce

The Gilets Jaunes emerged as a populist movement from the middle class. Then they were co-opted by the wrong people.

A guide to smelling the sheep

What other branch of law enforcement can destroy lives with ‘absolute immunity’?

As Northam-gate showed, when reporters are driven by Twitter-fueled partisanship, the results can be good and bad.

Like every other part of the Trump administration’s anti-Iranian “strategy,” the attempt to create an explicitly anti-Iranian security organization has flopped due to lack of interest.

Team Zuckerberg bans woman for posting image of Christian martyrs held by ISIS

Now the U.S. is in the absurd position of supporting a “legitimate” government with no power.

The program for the global Rome bishops’ meeting on sex abuse gives the game away

When non-elite minorities don’t want progressives taking their side

These fantasies are rooted in grossly overestimating the power of our government to affect political change in other countries and exaggerating the vulnerability of the targeted regime.

Blogger: ‘Most Catholics don’t care about the sex you’re not having. Chastity is our common calling’

Also: France in the footsteps of Leonardo da Vinci, and more.

The president failed on the wall because he did not pursue a populist agenda while Republicans controlled Congress.