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Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy?

Avi Berkowitz, “Seventy years of post-war diplomacy ruined” is the consensus establishment view of Donald Trump’s America First foreign policy.  And it is true.  But Donald Trump is not the first president in postwar America to rattle the iron cage of establishment diplomacy.  That honor goes to Harry Truman, who ruined Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s vision of the postwar

Is a Trump Doctrine Already Taking Shape?

Rachel Marsden, TANGIER, Morocco — As current and former presidents, ministers and members of various government administrations from all over the world gathered here last week for an annual conference near Africa’s northernmost point, attendees repeatedly circled back to one individual in their comments and questions: U.S. President Donald Trump. While speaking on a panel

Who Gets to Have Nuclear Weapons and Why?

Victor Davis Hanson, Given North Korea’s nuclear lunacy, what exactly are the rules, formal or implicit, about which nations can have nuclear weapons and which cannot? It is complicated. In the free-for-all environment of the 1940s and 1950s, the original nuclear club included only those countries with the technological know-how, size and money to build

It’s Trump’s Party Now

Pat Buchanan, “More is now required of us than to put down our thoughts in writing,” declaimed Jeff Flake in his oration against President Trump, just before he announced he will be quitting the Senate. Though he had lifted the title of his August anti-Trump polemic, “Conscience of a Conservative,” from Barry Goldwater, Jeff Flake

Chinese Colonialism is Growing Fast in America

Lloyd Billingsley, Farming weed, cultivating academics, and conning California. The legalization of marijuana for medicinal or recreational use, has not, as some politicians proclaimed, eliminated the black market for cannabis. Illicit weed grows are common in California, often manned by U.S. citizens or Mexican nationals in the country illegally. Like Sollozzo in The Godfather, the