Last week’s Obamacare debacle has cost the president a lot of political capital. It has also hugely increased the importance of his campaign promises (including the repeal of Obamacare) and made it harder for him to deal with other political…

Among NATO’s most serious problems is Recip Erdogan, the president of Turkey. He is more than a political nuisance, because he threatens both the commitment of NATO’s members to defend each other and the Westernized composition of the nation he…

Tomorrow, German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet face-to-face with President Trump for the first time, each to take the other’s measure. Mr. Trump has previously criticized Mrs. Merkel for her open-door immigration policy and, by implication in his criticism of…

The timing was pretty good. On Tuesday, less than two days after North Korea launched four ballistic missiles toward Japan (which dropped into the ocean), U.S. Air Force aircraft landed at Osan Air Base in South Korea, delivering the first…

In his February 28 speech to a joint session of Congress, President Trump proposed a $54 billion increase in the Pentagon budget for FY 2018, amounting to about a ten percent increase over this year’s budget. He also proposed to…

Early Friday morning, President Trump tweeted, “Iran is playing with fire — they don’t appreciate how ‘kind’ President Obama was to them. Not me!” Earlier in the week, both the president and National Security Advisor Mike Flynn said they were…

President Trump spent his first week in office living up to campaign promises. In a tsunami of executive orders and conversations with foreign leaders he did, as he said in his first weekly address, “hit the ground running.” In his…

Now that our national nightmare — the perennial presidential horse-race — is interrupted, we have entered the two-year period in our four-year election cycle when we can actually deal with the realities beyond the media’s nose. There’s a lot of…

Parading through their confirmation hearings, President-elect Trump’s nominees for the highest cabinet positions proved their minds somewhat independent of his. Which, of course, led to headlines like the one in Financial Times that said, “Clash of views in Trump cabinet…

TO: President-elect Donald Trump Secretary of Defense (nominee) Gen. James Mattis National Security Advisor (designee) Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn CC: Director of Central Intelligence (nominee) Cong. Mike Pompeo Director of National Intelligence (nominee) Sen. Dan Coates SUBJECT: Restoring America’s Defenses Americans…