Foreign Policy
April 23, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Vivek Ramaswamy is running as a Republican candidate for governor of Ohio. He was the featured speaker at a TPUSA event hosted at the Ohio State University’s Mershon Auditorium this past Tuesday evening. The argumentative NPR News story on his appearance makes him sound like an impressive candidate to me. Among other subjects, he fielded a scripted question on American support of Israel. The question harks back to his 2024
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April 12, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From The Hill newspaper, Trump announces Navy blockade in Strait of Hormuz after Iran talks fizzle. I found this map posted on Twitter (X) which I think perfectly summarizes the current situation, Yes, somehow, the U.K. Daily Mail has, once again, declared total and utter victory for…Iran. Tehran declared ‘victory in the field’ which it said would ‘also be consolidated in political negotiations’ but claimed the US ‘failed to gain
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April 10, 2026 — Bill Glahn
What am I missing here? Can all of these Iran “experts” be so completely wrong? They tell me Iran “controls” the exit to the Persian Gulf through a multi-million-dollar exit fee (payable in crypto). But how are the ships going to get back? Is there a back way in? Iran has no navy, so how are they going to get the empty ships back into the Persian Gulf to reload?
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April 9, 2026 — Bill Glahn
Commentary in The Hill newspaper, Petraeus: Iran could emerge from war ‘militarily weakened’ but ‘strategically strengthened’ Ok. But which Iran? No one seems to recall that the top several layers of Iranian leadership have been wiped out since the war began a few weeks ago. We are now dealing with the third and fourth stringers from earlier this year. The Iran of 2025 is not the same as the Iran
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April 9, 2026 — Bill Glahn
To understand what’s going on with Iran and the Persian Gulf, you have to understand game theory (from the field of mathematics and economics, think “John Nash”). YOU are not the intended audience of any statement, proposal, agreement, action made public. The factions within Iran are fighting it out, and the process is messy. When thinking about events this week, keep this in mind: There is NO agreement. There is
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March 5, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Foreign Policy magazine is a mouthpiece of the foreign policy establishment that has been wrong about nearly everything for many years. It emails its content daily; today’s featured article is “The Iran War Is Jeopardizing the Entire Global Economy.” Spoiler alert: the global economy is going to survive. So why does taking out the mullahs jeopardize the entire global economy? It is easy to see why it might help the
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September 26, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The respective powers of the President and Congress with regard to spending have been a subject of debate since at least the 1970s. The issue has heated up under the Trump administration, as, through DOGE and other initiatives, the administration has tried to put the brakes on wildly out of control spending under the Biden regime. One of the lawsuits that has arisen in that context is DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
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August 28, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The FBI’s raid on John Bolton’s house has been greeted with horror by the same people who reveled in the Bureau’s search of Melania Trump’s underwear drawer. As we noted here, the search, which was signed off on by two federal judges, could have related to several possible scenarios involving mishandling of classified information, including a report that Bolton sent classified documents to family members: Today’s New York Times has
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June 3, 2025 — John Hinderaker
If you listened to liberals, you would never cut any government spending, because all spending cuts cause people to die. How anyone ever survived before the modern era of behemoth government is a mystery. The Trump administration’s pause on dispensation of USAID grants is a case in point. We know that many USAID programs were money-laundering operations for the global Left that needed to be shut down. Happily, that is
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May 20, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Democrats have defined themselves as the party of illegal immigrant gang members and men who want to compete in women’s sports. As crazy as that might seem, it is true. We saw it again today, when Secretary of State Marco Rubio testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Elderly members of the Democrats’ increasingly elderly base showed up to protest on behalf of mass murderers and rapists: The Democrat Party
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April 11, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is one of my favorite people in politics. On Tuesday of this week, he was the guest of Donald Trump, Jr. on Trump’s podcast. They had a great conversation that covered a number of foreign policy topics. Rubio’s comments on Venezuela and Mexico, among others, are noteworthy. The State Department’s web site posted a transcript of the podcast, which I encourage you to check out.
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March 11, 2025 — John Hinderaker
I don’t pretend to understand what is going on here, but employees at USAID, a key DOGE target, have been instructed to shred and burn their documents: A senior official at USAID instructed a number of the agency’s remaining staff to convene at the agency’s now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday for an “all day” group effort to destroy documents stored there, many of which contain sensitive information. The materials
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February 14, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Appearing at the annual Munich Security Conference today, Vice President J.D. Vance torched Europe in a manner they’ve never heard before. I kept seeing squibs from the speech on social media this morning, and couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Some excerpts: The threat that I worry the most about vis a vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. What I worry about
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February 4, 2025 — John Hinderaker
I don’t know who this young woman from Uganda is, but she makes more sense than the entire Democratic House and Senate caucuses combined. I find it interesting that President Trump’s temporary pause in foreign aid spending has brought some foreign voices out of the woodwork, saying, yes: USAID’s spending is riddled with fraud and political corruption, and as a result is at best a mixed blessing for recipient countries:
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February 3, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Today’s biggest news story is the Trump administration’s assault on the Agency for International Development. USAID is the agency that dispenses foreign aid. Headlines have been breathless: USAID is being “shut down,” “dismantled,” and, in a stunning move, employees reportedly were locked out of their building. Is is reported that AID “will be merged into the State Department.” I always thought AID was part of the State Department. I interned
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October 26, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Many of the media headlines reporting on Israel’s air strikes on Iran in the middle of the night last night say something along the lines of “could lead to an escalation of the regional war.” I have news for everybody: World War III has been underway at least since October 7 of last year, whether we want to acknowledge it or not. The only question is whether its scale and
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May 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Biden Administration insists that Israel must have a plan for the “day after” it completes its victory over Hamas. A reasonable question is: why? Gaza started this war on October 7, and Israel responded as it had to, as any nation would, by fighting and, now, winning the war. Why should it be Israel’s burden to try to make something constructive out of the sickest culture in the world?
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