Someone tried to blow up a fight at the White House. Five people. Explosive drones. Snipers. A coordinated plot to kill people attending a UFC event on the South Lawn of the President's house. And if you're just hearing about this now, ask yourself why. Read More.

There is a passage in Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War that describes the moment when Corcyra descended into civil strife: "Words had to change their ordinary meaning," the historian wrote, "and to take that which was now given them." Courage became foolhardiness. Prudent caution became cowardice. The inversion of language preceded — and perhaps caused — the inversion of the moral order. Read More.

In Book I of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides observed that nations act not from ideology alone but from a triad of motivating forces — fear, honor, and interest — and that when a weaker power probes a stronger one, it is rarely suicidal. It is, more often, a calculated test of whether deterrence still holds. Read More.

PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is planning to secure a new grand jury indictment against several allies of President Donald Trump accused of participating in efforts to challenge Arizona's 2020 presidential election results, according to a report by the Washington Examiner. Read More.

The Roman Republic did not collapse because its legions were defeated in the field. It eroded, gradually and almost imperceptibly, from within. Sallust, writing in the generation before the Republic's final crisis, identified the mechanism with uncommon clarity: when a civilization abandons the virtues that built it, the language through which those virtues were expressed becomes the first casualty. Words grow contested. Then they are redefined. Then they are replaced. By the time a republic wakes to what has happened, the vocabulary of self-governance has already been emptied of its meaning. Read More.

John Bolton spent years telling you that Donald Trump was a threat to American institutions. That the rule of law mattered. That classified information was sacred and the men who mishandled it were unfit for public trust. Read More.

Marc Elias went to federal court to kill the fund that would pay back his victims. Senate Republicans are helping. Read More.

Alexis de Tocqueville, writing of democratic despotism in Democracy in America, described a system that would not tyrannize through violence but through the steady degradation of citizenship — a society in which an "immense and tutelary power" would keep citizens "in perpetual childhood," covering the surface of society "with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform." He envisioned an authority that would not break wills so much as soften them, not forbid but prevent, not punish but enfeeble. Read More.

They called it a peaceful protest. Read More.

The Department of Justice has established a $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund intended to compensate individuals whose lives were disrupted by what the department characterizes as politically motivated federal prosecutions under the prior administration. The fund, now the subject of competing congressional and media scrutiny, represents what its architects describe as the first systematic attempt in a generation to attach a dollar figure to the cost of prosecutorial abuse targeting political opponents. Read More.

In the seventh year of the Peloponnesian War, Athens found itself holding a position of unexpected strength. Its navy was dominant, its treasury sufficient, its enemies fractured. Sparta, exhausted and humiliated by losses at Sphacteria, sent envoys seeking terms. The peace was theirs to dictate. Read More.

A federal district court judge on Thursday denied Senate Democrats' request for a preliminary injunction against President Donald Trump's executive order directing federal agencies to verify citizenship information on voter rolls and require that mail-in ballots arrive by Election Day, delivering the administration's first legal victory on its election integrity push. Read More.

Former President Joe Biden filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice on Tuesday, seeking to permanently block the release of audio recordings from special counsel Robert Hur's investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents. Read More.

Thucydides observed, in his account of the Melian Dialogue, that the powerful do what they will while the weak suffer what they must — but he also noted something more interesting: that both powerful and weak alike are subject to self-deception, and that the most dangerous failure in foreign policy is not weakness but the deliberate refusal to hear what an adversary tells you plainly. Read More.

The Democratic National Committee spent Memorial Day doing what it does best. Read More.