1947–1991 tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies
Editors at National Review Online praise one of President Donald Trump’s ideas for boosting national security. It’s not news that President Trump sometimes sets out difficult-to-achieve goals on nearly impossible…
Editors at National Review Online compare a new Trump administration plan to one that played a crucial role in ending the Cold War. When, in March 1983 in a nationally…
Jack Butler writes for National Review Online about recent changes on the political right. Phil Klein describes the political coalition ascendant on the right today as “the new fusionism of…
Editors at National Review Online assess former President Jimmy Carter’s legacy. He won the nomination, and the election, in great part because of who he was not. He was not…
John Fund writes for National Review Online about another piece of bad news from the left coast. There’s no better illustration of California’s decline to banana-republic status than this: The…
Aaron Friedberg writes in Foreign Affairs about a tool for keeping communist China at bay. Twenty-five years after the beginning of the first so-called China shock, when a surge in…
Editors at National Review Online focus on necessary changes for one high-profile piece of the federal government. Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and other U.S.-funded international broadcasters…
William Hawkins writes for the American Thinker about the ultimate goal of campus anti-Israel protesters. As campus protests turned violent, necessitating police operations to clear illegal encampments, the true agenda…
John Hinderaker of the Powerline blog considers electoral challenges for the president and his Democratic Party. Democrats are nervous about Biden because 1) everyone has now noticed that he is…
Zack Cooper of the American Enterprise Institute examines the changing nature of world power. There is a growing risk that American policymakers will view competition with China through the lens…
Hal Brands of the American Enterprise Institute warns readers about a sad fact in today’s world. The Ukraine war is the first great-power nuclear crisis of the 21st century —…
Eddie Scarry of the Federalist writes about subterfuge on the political left. An everlasting truism of the political left is that when they hold an indefensible position, they pretend everything…