The Iranian people are being subjected to collective punishment because of the arbitrary whim of our president.

Also: A short history of the color orange, Jane Austen memorial rejected, and more.

American hawks couldn’t see further in the future. They weren’t even perceiving the present correctly.

Leaving behind a residual force puts them at risk for no good reason.

Once a powerful voice against executive overreach, they’re perfectly fine with big deficits and the ends justifying the means.

Acting in America’s national interest is a good thing. But sometimes our allies are in more precarious positions than we appreciate.

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

He recognizes the folly of staying in Syria and Afghanistan forever. So why is Baghdad the exception?

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

Obama officials reveal how relentlessly our ‘allies’ lobbied for this ill-advised regime change war.

That obnoxious Dutch historian deserved what he got from the host

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

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

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

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

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.