It’s about China, stupid

A controversial Koch-backed appointment is retracted, ostensibly over Middle East issues. But the battle is really about China.

The claim that tariffs are inherently misguided and inevitably harmful does not stand up to scrutiny, especially when it comes to U.S. trade with 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 controversial firebrand rabbi is experiencing a revival—but for whose benefit?

What does the 20th century show us about President Trump’s proposal to permanently move the population of Gaza?

Trump isn’t going anywhere. Neither is Putin.

The murder of the Bibas children caps off an 18-month catalog of horrors that has told us exactly who our Palestinian neighbors are. Backed by a friend in the White House, Israel must secure its future through strong unilateral action.

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

History loves irony, especially in Eastern Europe

Part II: How Reagan-Bush Republicans awakened the Balrogs of economic, immigration, and identity politics that Donald Trump used to crush them

Part I: Donald Trump broke the back of the GOP establishment by driving blue-collar and lower-middle-class politics in a Southern direction. His gentry Republican critics have only themselves to blame.

Making sense of the presidential election