Alawite insurgents are trying to foment sectarian conflict to undermine and destabilize the interim Syrian government.

If implemented, the tariffs announced yesterday by President Trump would constitute the largest tax increase since the 1968 levies to fund the Vietnam War. The details will matter, but my back ...

By terming himself the team updater, Secretary Hegseth constricts his job indiscreet conveyor of information. Without a Secretary who understands their role more substantively, expect lots more of ...

As laboratories dismiss staff and halt clinical trials, and as countries like France actively recruit American scientists, it’s worth questioning whether short-term budgetary gains justify potentially ...

This isn’t about the merits of US tariff policy, because we still don’t have one. Yesterday’s rollout was not credible. First, the administration was unable to choose a path until very late ...

The growing appetite for reliable, clean power has helped thrust nuclear energy back into the national conversation after decades of declining fortunes. Yet this nuclear resurgence faces formidable ...

Herman Kahn's innate optimism flourished during 1970s US-Soviet détente when Kahn's Hudson Institute countered fashionable environmental catastrophism with robust techno-capitalist futurism. While ...

Let’s start with a chart to understand the dire fiscal situation we are in as a nation. Figure 1. Federal Debt Held by the Public as a Share of Gross Domestic Product, 1940-2054 You’re looking at how ...

It was a “naughty document,” Winston Churchill admitted.In October 1944, the British prime minister proposed that he and Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin avert postwar conflict by splitting the ...

There is a great deal of pearl-clutching going on in the halls of intellectual excellence in Washington DC. Donald Trump, we are reliably informed, is definitely going to pull the United States out of ...