President Trump said this week that if Iran attacks a Qatari liquefied natural gas facility again, the United States will strike Iran's South Pars Gas Field. Not study it. Not convene a coalition. Not refer the matter to the United Nations. Strike it. Read More.

Senior officials from the Department of Justice appeared before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a closed-door briefing as part of the committee's intensifying investigation into the federal government's prior handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Read More.

Alexis de Tocqueville, writing in Democracy in America nearly two centuries ago, described a peculiar danger that would eventually threaten the American experiment — not the tyranny of the sword or the chains of a despot, but something far more insidious: a soft, administrative despotism that would "cover the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. Read More.

Joe Kent is gone. Read More.

The initiative will create a "mission control command center" based at the FBI, where agents from IRS Criminal Investigations will work on one-year assignments. Read More.

Independent journalist Nick Shirley — who rose to national prominence after exposing massive fraud in Minnesota's government-subsidized program network — has turned his camera on California... Read More.

The Senate is debating whether American citizens should have to prove Read More.

In the summer of 415 B.C., as Athens prepared to dispatch its greatest armada to Sicily, Thucydides recorded the arguments of Nicias, the reluctant general who begged his countrymen to ask themselves what kind of civilization they were before committing to what kind of war they would fight. Read More.

A once-highly classified April 2020 National Intelligence Council memo, quietly declassified by the Biden administration two years after it was written, states plainly... Read More.

Thucydides, writing of the Peloponnesian War's descent from calculated strategy into ungoverned catastrophe, observed that the most dangerous moment in any great conflict is not its beginning — when resolve is fresh and purpose is clear — but its third or fourth chapter, when the original logic has been obscured by the weight of events, and the leaders who made the fateful decisions must now justify them against outcomes they did not fully anticipate. Athens had its generals. We have ours. Read More.

Senate Republicans are advancing the SAVE America Act this week, a bill requiring documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, following House passage last month on a largely party-line vote. The bill faces an uncertain path in the upper chamber, where it must clear a 60-vote threshold to overcome a Democratic filibuster. Read More.

A former FBI agent assigned to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the Trump campaign has made explosive allegations of misconduct... Read More.

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What Purim Reveals About This WarThe bombs began falling on Tehran on March 2 — the first night of Purim. Read More.

The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down for nearly a month. Airport security lines are buckling. The Senate failed — for the fourth time — to pass legislation to fund it. And Democrats are defending that choice by saying ICE isn't "focused" enough. Read More.