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Wednesday, June 17th on RealClearPolitics – Joined by Historian Tevi Troy and AEI Distinguished Fellow Emeritus Karlyn Bowman: 00:00 Trump Changes Tune After… Source link

For more than 7 decades, leaders of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) have emphasized that their countries maintain an exceptionally close political, economic, and security relationship.  Mao Zedong even stated during the Korean War that the bilateral relationship was “as close as lips and teeth.” Numerous PRC officials have repeated that phrase throughout the years since then.  (A variation describes the alliance as close as “teeth and gums,” a formulation that is essentially the same).  The summit meeting between PRC President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held in mid-June…

President Donald Trump may owe his 2016 election victory to his criticism of President George W. Bush’s Iraq misadventure. Yet Trump’s misjudgments about Iran have been much greater. At least Bush defeated his Mideast opponent: the regime of Saddam Hussein. Despite Trump’s repeated assertion that Tehran had lost and should surrender, the Islamist regime blocked global oil traffic, wrecked U.S. bases, and destroyed regional energy infrastructure. Unwilling to risk potentially devastating Iranian escalation, the president was reduced to repeatedly announcing plans to destroy civilian targets across Iran, a war crime, only to retreat and claim that he was responding to…

Mike Pence really hates populism. Perhaps we should not say “hate,” because the former vice president’s Christian disposition demands he pray for what he cannot change and for those who he feels have lost their way, including Donald Trump, who many think stirred up an angry mob to kill Pence on January 6, 2021. But if Pence had his druthers, he would take a time machine right back to the Reagan administration and leave it there. The problem with Pence’s approach, which is detailed in his new book, What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience, is that he still doesn’t…

Landowners along the southern border are feeling the consequences of a Donald Trump campaign promise more than a decade in the making: the creation of a border wall.  Equipped with billions of dollars in taxpayer funds, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has begun surveying remote West Texas land for wall construction. For some in Texas’ Big Bend region, these surveys may mean forfeiting their property rights, some for land their families have held for generations.  Earlier this year, CBP sent Right of Entry for Construction (ROE-C) letters to Texas landowners along the border, offering a signing bonus of up to…

How long will it take for global energy markets to return to normal? A long time, it turns out. Source link

Last week, a group of bipartisan lawmakers reintroduced the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA). Although it promises to deliver innovation and choice in the technology sector, AICOA would undermine both. As currently written, AICOA would place restrictions on “systemically important platforms”—Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft—and limit their ability to engage in a wide range of common business practices. These practices include self-preferencing, ranking or presenting results in ways users find useful, tying products or services together, and using nonpublic data from their business users to “compete with products or services offered by business users,” among others.  If…

In diplomacy, negotiations sometimes fail not because solutions are lacking, but because objectives become too numerous. A negotiating table established to address a specific crisis suddenly transforms into a platform for fulfilling a wide array of geopolitical ambitions – ambitions that, individually, could require years of bargaining, diplomacy, and political struggle. Today, the Iran file appears to be caught in precisely such a situation. While the region is still grappling with the consequences of the recent war between Iran and the United States, and the current fragile ceasefire could be disrupted by a single miscalculation or new escalation, negotiations that…

The following remarks were delivered on receiving the Milton Friedman Award at the Pacific Research Institute in New York City June 16, 2026. It is a special honor to receive an award named for Milton Friedman, pathbreaking economist, friend and advocate for liberty, fierce debater and intellectual combatant – a man whose ideas have shaped the modern world. It is not an exaggeration to say that we live today in the Age of Friedman, an era shaped by his ideas about the importance of monetary policy in the performance of modern economies, and the role played by central banks in managing money supply.…

We Must Restore Congress as the Predominant Branch Source link