Search, intrusion, and the Constitution’s oldest fear It was January 20, 2026, Mikie Sherrill’s first day as the newly elected governor of New Jersey, and the room had barely settled when she spoke.

She did not begin with a policy or a…

What the Hell Happened Yesterday in a Little Swiss Ski Village Once a year, in a small Swiss town better known for ski lifts than for statesmen, the world’s most influential people gather to rehearse the idea that history can still be…

It begins the way it often does now: not with a proclamation, but with a knock that arrives in daylight.

In early October 2025, Barbara Wien was kneeling in her Arlington, Virginia yard, pulling weeds around a peach tree, when federal…

The Trump administration’s effort to make journalism conditional It began quietly, the way these things now do.¹ A reporter stood barefoot in a Washington townhouse hallway while federal agents inventoried her devices.

Phones.

What Happens When the Monroe Doctrine Meets the Global Supply Chain Donald Trump’s plan to take Greenland rests on an idea that should have been retired along with sailcloth and powdered wigs.¹ The Monroe Doctrine —now casually revived in…

How Trump Turned American Commitments Into a Strategic Variable The first time you hear it said out loud, it lands like a hairline crack in a load-bearing beam: With this U.S.

administration, we can’t rely on anything.