William Tucker

Just curious, but is anybody paying attention to what just happened in Pakistan? It’s dribbled out in bits and pieces, but I don’t recall anyone putting the whole picture in perspective. Here’s what’s happened. More than a year ago, Asia…

I had the privilege of ghost-editing Newt Gingrich’s To Renew America after Republicans won both Houses of Congress in 1994 and remember it as a very exciting time. Newt was full of ideas and we spent about three months pulling…

The opening shot of the War Between the Red and Blue States may have been fired last Friday when the Environmental Protection Administration announced its intention to take over Texas’s authority on issuing clean air permits to new industrial facilities…

The race hounds at the New York Times, who don’t miss a thing, have nabbed Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour trying cross the border into Presidential territory posing as an ordinary citizen. Barbour is the subject of a cover story by…

I’m just an amateur at this with no particular expertise in international relations, but it seems to me we’re going about this North Korea business all wrong. What’s the situation? North Korea’s childlike aggression with its new toy of nuclear…

Three weeks ago I wrote about the Weekly Standard‘spublication of an Amory Lovins anti-nuclear tract represented a low point in lack of understanding about nuclear power. That record didn’t stand for long. This month the Atlantic Monthly has topped everything…

President Obama came away from the Korean trade negotiations last week looking much diminished. “U.S. Wields Less Clout at Summit” was the typical headline in the Wall Street Journal. All this was attributed to many factors — the slow recovery…

After years of taking a sensible approach to energy, the Weekly Standard has gone green. Last week the editors kicked off their “Energy Policy in 2011” series with a treatise from none other than the pied piper of solar energy,…

This summer China surpassed the United States as the world’s largest producer of energy. What was noteworthy, however, is not what China has accomplished over the past 10 years — doubling its energy capacity — but what it is planning…

I usually don’t like to push my name too far to the forefront in writing a story, but after a quarter-century of reporting on politics I think I’ve discerned a general principle that deserves to find a place in the…