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Read more Thucydides, writing of the protracted struggle between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century before Christ, observed that nations go to war not for the stated reasons of justice or grievance, but because of fear, honor, and interest — Read more The Department of Justice sent federal agents to the homes of four New York Times reporters on Saturday, delivering grand jury subpoenas related to the publication of a story that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had warned would compromise “highly classified national security secrets,” according to reports confirmed in part by the Times itself. Read more The Department of Homeland Security issued a public condemnation of the action Wednesday, calling the pardon a betrayal of the victim and a direct obstacle to federal immigration enforcement. Read more The Department of Justice is investigating Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) over alleged campaign finance violations, according to multiple reports published Monday. Read more Today marks the fourth anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court decision that overturned fifty years of constitutionally dubious precedent and returned the question of abortion to the democratic deliberation of the American people. It is a moment worth pausing to examine honestly — not with the triumphalism that sometimes tempts the victorious, nor with the despair that sometimes afflicts the honest observer. It demands, rather, the kind of sober analysis that has characterized the best of the American political tradition. Read more The Department of Justice last week indicted 15 individuals connected to alleged antifa organizational networks in Minnesota, charging them with federal conspiracy offenses arising from coordinated violence against federal immigration enforcement personnel. The indictments have prompted an immediate operational security response within antifa’s online communication channels. Read more In the third book of his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides describes the phenomenon he called stasis — the internal dissolution of a political community that proceeds not through foreign conquest but through the abandonment of shared civic understanding. When citizens can no longer agree on the fundamental purposes of their political life, when the language of governance becomes unmoored from its original meaning, the republic does not collapse in a single dramatic hour. It erodes. It cycles through leaders with increasing speed, discarding each one with the same efficiency it once used to appoint them, and concludes nothing from the pattern. Read more Three House committee chairmen threatened the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue with a contempt citation on Monday, escalating a yearlong congressional investigation into allegations that the organization failed to prevent fraudulent and potentially foreign political donations from flowing through its system. Read more Here’s something the foreign policy establishment will never say out loud: they don’t actually want peace with Iran. Read more Wednesday, President Trump signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran. The entire foreign policy establishment exhaled. “Historic.” “Diplomatic breakthrough.” “A new era.” The words came pouring out of the same people who’ve been wrong about the Middle East for 30 straight years. Read more On the morning of June 19, 2026 — Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the final emancipation of enslaved Americans at the close of the Civil War — the Obama Presidential Center opened its doors on Chicago’s South Side. The ceremony featured land acknowledgments, celebrity guests, former heads of state, and at least one prominent governor who reportedly “literally teared up” during his private tour. The monument cost $850 million to complete. Read more Someone tried to blow up a fight at the White House. Five people. Explosive drones. Snipers. A coordinated plot to kill people attending a UFC event on the South Lawn of the President’s house. And if you’re just hearing about this now, ask yourself why. Read more There is a passage in Thucydides’ account of the Peloponnesian War that describes the moment when Corcyra descended into civil strife: “Words had to change their ordinary meaning,” the historian wrote, “and to take that which was now given them.” Courage became foolhardiness. Prudent caution became cowardice. The inversion of language preceded — and perhaps caused — the inversion of the moral order. Read more
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