Europe’s Free-Speech Crackdown: Punish Anti-Muslims, Ignore Terrorists

Noah Daponte-Smith

A spate of terrorist attacks has hit Europe in the past month, not only in Manchester and London but also in Paris and Brussels, where incidents this week were mercifully terminated before they could do any real damage. In Britain, a man seeking vengeance rammed a van into a crowd exiting a mosque, giving rise to real and...

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On Russia, Can Congress Save Trump from Himself?

Jonathan S. Tobin

It doesn’t happen very often, but on at least one issue, Donald Trump is acting like a normal president. Unfortunately, in this rare instance, he’s actually doing something not only wrongheaded...

The Republican Health-Care Mistake

Michael Brendan Dougherty

Republicans in the House and Senate have made a grievous political miscalculation: They have staked themselves to doing something about Obamacare, yet they can barely feign interest in the...

The President Shouldn’t Set Congress’s Legislative Agenda

Max Bloom

‘The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be...

Should Nancy Pelosi Step Down?

Alexandra DeSanctis

Democrats have been doing plenty of self-reflection since they lost the special election in Georgia’s sixth district on Tuesday. As a result, several House Democrats have intensely and publicly...

The Antithesis of Obstruction

Andrew C. McCarthy

The “collusion” narrative was a fraud, plain and simple. We know that now. Hopefully, it won’t take another six months to grasp a second plain and simple truth: Collusion’s successor, the...

American Weakness and Incompetence Are Vladimir Putin’s Greatest Assets

David French

This morning, the Washington Post published a lengthy account of the Obama White House’s internal response to Russian efforts to influence the 2016 elections. It’s worth reading for the drama...