There’s a lot we don’t know about cyberwar.  But that doesn’t mean we can stop progress from happening while we figure it out.  So, Russia attacks us, we attack back, escalation occurs and who knows, our officials may or may…

It is conventional wisdom that Americans want nothing to do with the world save for cheap imports and K-Pop music.  Even New York Times columnists say so.  But, the reality is far different.  In fact, polling suggests the opposite is…

The intellectual vitality of the Democratic Party right now is coming from our progressives. The center, of which I was long a part, is withering, offering only the formulations of the past that have produced much of the inequality &…

The Quick Take A quick look at the headlines this week 👀🏃🏻‍♀️ Hong Kong: Last Sunday, in Hong Kong, about one million people came together to protest a proposed extradition law that would send individuals in the semiautonomous Chinese territory to mainland…

In 1780 John Adams wrote “For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.” It was in the Massachusetts Constitution that he was trying to enshrine the idea that the new U.S.…

The thin strand of legitimacy by which Trump’s presidency hangs requires that he defend criminal activity that is a profound, direct threat to American national security. His main job as president has become to say colluding with a foreign enemy…

If you think getting your parents approval on whom you date is tough, try getting the CIA to approve your boyfriend or girlfriend.  Dating like anything in the CIA is ridiculous and yes it even involves paperwork. I heard the…

Anna Fifield, Beijing Bureau Chief of the Washington Post, has written an extraordinary new book providing never before available insights into North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un. Deep State Radio regular’s Kori Schake of IISS and David Sanger of the…

Impeachment has become a charged word in our national political debate.  But the framers of our Constitution saw it as an essential tool in protecting the integrity of our government and the interests of the American people.  Professor Lawrence Tribe,…

Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom folding laundry when news of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary flashed across the television screen. In one moment, she went from outraged to engaged and decided to do something about it. What…

The disinformation war of the President, AG Barr and their associates is unlike any we have ever seen in US history…and this is a country that knows a thing or two about bullshit.  But not only is the Team Trump…

The Quick Take A quick look at the headlines this week 👀🏃🏻‍♀️ China: The world commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacres that took place on June 4, 1989. In China, not so much. There, the history of the…