Lee Smith is the author of Disappearing the President: Trump, Truth Social, and the Fight for the Republic (2024).
By quarterbacking Israel’s attack on Iran, Trump brought an end to a particularly demoralizing era in U.S. history
Democratic operatives are using orchestrated street violence to fracture the military leadership and destabilize the Trump presidency—again
MAGA influencers replace the mainstream media as vehicles for traditional information campaigns targeting Israel—and Trump
A remembrance of the author of the American classic, ‘Radical Son,’ who became a leading voice on the right
The self-styled dissident podcasters’ takes are mere repackaged establishment wisdom
A controversial Koch-backed appointment is retracted, ostensibly over Middle East issues. But the battle is really about China.
The former secretary of state’s 1972 opening to China badly weakened the U.S. By dispensing with that conceit, Trump shows he intends for America to win the great-power competition.
The debate over the nomination of Elbridge ‘Bridge’ Colby pits some of Donald Trump’s most prominent second-term supporters against the president’s own policies
Donald Trump reminds the world that ideas have sell-by dates
A front-runner for the top White House intelligence job may be planning to run cover for the IC, sources say
The former president lost big on Nov. 5. But he doesn’t seem interested in leaving D.C., or American politics.
Israel shows America how to win wars
How Barack Obama ended normalcy in American politics
It wasn’t Donald Trump, or Joe Biden
The point of the U.S. deal isn’t peace. It’s to prevent the two American allies from coming together, while subordinating them both to Iran.
Why is the Biden administration dangling the Hamas chief in exchange for stopping the Gaza war? Because the terror group’s survival is key to the administration’s larger project in the Middle East.
The Palestinian terror organization refuses to release hostages while clinging to its last stronghold in Rafah. So why is the Biden administration throwing the full weight of the U.S. government at Israel to prevent it from routing Hamas?
The emirate’s role as a back channel between the U.S. and Iran has metastasized into something far more dangerous
