NEW YORK — The Trump administration’s emerging deal with the Taliban has the potential to bring greater stability to Afghanistan, after an 18-year inconclusive war in that country. Or it could reignite the Afghan civil war, emboldening terrorist groups and plunging the nation into another decade of turmoil — which might then force the United […]

Calling someone “racist” has become the default position for liberal politicians and certain members of the media who wish to deflect attention from real problems. President Trump has (again) been called a racist for having the temerity to note that House Government Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, seems to spend more time criticizing him […]

NEW YORK — Donald Trump is clearly searching for a way out of Afghanistan. Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo bluntly explained the president’s directions to him: “End the endless wars. Draw down. Reduce.” Trump’s frustration with this long and inconclusive conflict is well-founded. Washington cannot simply keep doing what it has been doing […]

WASHINGTON — The two-night Democratic debate this week was portrayed as a policy brawl between the party’s moderate and left wings. But what we really saw in Detroit were debates between the party’s left and the far left. On Tuesday night, the so-called moderates offered dire warnings about the socialist policies advocated by Sens. Bernie […]

Do you worry that the clothes you buy pose an environmental hazard? The idea never crossed my mind until serious news sources started talking about it. The central claim was that the fashion industry is the world’s second biggest source of pollution, the first being oil. The story circulated so widely because few of us […]

There was a time when the left considered McCarthyism the worst of all political tactics. That was before it became useful to question Mitch McConnell’s loyalty to his country. The Senate majority leader’s offense is blocking Democratic-sponsored election security bills, which has occasioned the sort of charges that Democrats have spent the better half of […]

Forgeries, malign innuendo, smears, hoaxes and outright lies are primal psychological and emotional weapons. From lovers’ quarrels to great-power warfare, they are innate factors in human conflict. Unfortunately, we have entered the age of deep fakes (aka deepfakes), where new digital “bottles” can instantaneously, pervasively and persuasively deliver vintage lies and classic smears. Deep fakes […]