Alexis de Tocqueville, who understood American democracy better than most Americans ever have, observed in the 1830s that democratic republics possess within themselves a peculiar form of self-correction: when a governing class becomes too disconnected from the people it ostensibly serves, the mechanisms of popular sovereignty eventually — sometimes painfully, sometimes slowly, always unmistakably — reassert themselves. The elected cease to represent the governed. The governed, in turn, cease to pretend otherwise. Read More.

Here’s something nobody in cable news will admit: the Iran situation is going better than almost anyone expected. Read More.

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he is deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to American airports to help manage worsening security lines... Read More.

Thucydides, in his history of the Peloponnesian War, recorded what has since become the most instructive observation in the literature of statecraft: that it is the nature of dominant powers to expand their dominion wherever they are not resisted, and that the only durable check on aggression is the demonstrated will to oppose it completely. Read More.

The Senate is debating the SAVE America Act — a bill that requires proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. Simple. Obvious. The kind of thing that used to be uncontroversial. The bill has been on the floor for three days. Democrats have been calling it a voter suppression scheme, an attack on democracy, an act of Republican extremism. Read More.

At the heart of the administration's brief is a textual and historical argument about what the 14th Amendment's framers actually intended when they... Read More.

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.