Ganesh Sitarman, a law professor at Vanderbilt, says the 2020 Democratic candidates are offering a new U.S. foreign policy that is distinct from the liberal internationalism (typified by President’s Clinton and Obama) and aggressive neoconservativism (exemplified by President Bush). In speeches and articles, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders have taken the lead in defining the role...
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Trump Seeks Prosecution of Julian Assange, Pro-Trump Publisher
In December 2010, real estate mogul Donald Trump said Wikileaks, online publisher of leaked documents, was “disgraceful” and suggested the death penalty might be appropriate for its massive disclosure of U.S. government secrets. In the summer of 2016, when Wikileaks began to release hacked Democratic party emails, candidate Trump said “I love Wikileaks.” On Thursday,...
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Moon Jae-in Seeks to Forge Peace on the Korean Peninsula
South Korean president Moon Jae-in will visit President Trump in the White House today, the latest step on his long and winding and still unfinished journey toward the goal on which he has bet his presidency: denuclearization and disarmament on the Korean peninsula. As I’ve said before, parochial Americans, obsessed with the North Korean dictator...
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Who Should I Believe on Trump-Russia?
People are asking me, “Who should I believe?” In the furious debate that has followed Attorney General Bill Barr’s four-page letter about Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s 300-page report, the many consumers of left-liberal (and NeverTrump right) opinion have to choose who is more credible: Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, and Michael Tracey? Or David Corn, Marcy...
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GOP: Welcome to the Collusion Hall of Shame
Marc Thiessen, former aide to Sen. Jesse Helms, voices the Republican response. He says Attorney General Bill Barr’s four-page summaryof Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s 300-page report vindicates President Trump. He singles out former CIA director John Brennan Trump was right to revoke Brennan’s security clearance. He is among the worst of the worst, the Trump-Russia...