PARIS — Nobody wanted the U.S. to bomb Iran last weekend — especially not Americans. A full 60 percent thought Trump should stay out of this Israel-Iran gong show, and just 19 percent of his own voters supported intervening after Israel bombed Iran two weeks ago, according to a recent ...
After a short and successful war with Iraq, President George H.W. Bush claimed in 1991 that "the ghosts of Vietnam have been laid to rest beneath the sands of the Arabian desert." Bush was referring to what was commonly called the "Vietnam syndrome." The idea was that the Vietnam War had so ...
At the birth of the internet age in the early 1990s, the U.S. and Europe took opposite approaches to advancing this new economy-changing technology. Europe tried the approach of industrial policy: They allowed government to regulate, subsidize and then tax the swarm of new tech companies that ...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is apparently the leader of a menacing conspiracy. The New York Times put this on the June 24 front page: "Under Trump, Ex-MTV Star Pitches Big Families." But he used to be a bad boy on MTV, so the headline underneath was "From a Racy Past to a Key Cabinet ...
Most people we know aren’t adverse to reasonable gun control laws. There is nothing wrong with trying to keep innocent people safe while giving people access to firearms. It’s with that in mind that we underscore that June is National Gun Violence Awareness Month, a time to raise ...
In ordering the bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran, President Trump did the right thing, for the right reason, and at the right time. As usual, some in the major media got it wrong. The New York Times initially headlined: "U.S. Enters War Against Iran." A Washington Post editorial said: ...