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The magnitude of President Trump’s decision to accept a summit invitation from North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un should not be understated. It is bold. It is risky. It might even be the ultimate geopolitical Hail Mary pass of all time. Yet…
The view that America is the indispensable leader in efforts to make a better world has long been so dominant in American foreign policy thinking as to seem axiomatic. Much of the current hostility to the Donald Trump presidency originated…
Democrat Conor Lamb’s triumph over Republican Rick Saccone in the special election for Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District made something abundantly clear: The best path to a Democratic House majority runs straight through the Keystone State. That’s what I learned talking…
Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election based on a number of factors — chief among them being his power of personality, particularly among his supporters. And in the White House, Trump’s personal brand has propelled him to an 87…
In a stunning upset, Democrat Conor Lamb won an incredibly close special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District, beating out Republican candidate Rick Saccone in a deeply conservative district the nonpartisan Cook Political Report rated R+11. The race stretched into…
If signals from extraterrestrial civilizations ever reach Earth, the aliens themselves will more likely be already non-existent. Attempting to update the so-called Drake equation from 1961, which is our best formula for predicting how many detectable civilizations should exist in the Milky Way galaxy,…
