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Foreign Affairs ‘Grand Strategy’ Misses the Point The fixation on grand strategy neglects the fact that foreign policy is the product of politics. Credit: image via Shutterstock As the United States prepares for the November presidential election, political commentators and security analysts are no doubt also preparing for what now seems like the obligatory ritual of providing grandiose plans, roadmaps,...

AP Images After having fallen hilariously short of their of their preseason prediction of more that 30 named storms for this Atlantic hurricane season (there have been 11 named storms as of this writing, with peak season quickly coming to an end), climate cultists have jumped on Hurricane Helene and the tragic flooding in Asheville, North Carolina, as somehow proving...

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock/Getty Images Plus President Joe Biden spoke with reporters at the White House earlier today, stating that Israel and the U.S. are discussing a response to Iran’s recent attack. When asked if he supported an Israeli attack on Iranian oil infrastructure, he answered, “We’re discussing that. I think that would be a little… anyway.”Following the attack earlier this week...

TAEMiller/iStock/Getty Images Plus Firearms sales, according to the Firearm Industry Trade Association (NSSF, formerly the National Shooting Sports Foundation), jumped again in September. Violent crime, as reported by the FBI, fell precipitously last year to levels not seen since 2017.The obvious connection: More private ownership of firearms in the country is translating into lower crime.The NSSF reported on Wednesday that...

AP Images While the mainstream media is making much out of the issue of wages in the strike called by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) on Tuesday, the real issue is one that goes back more than a century: automation.Said ILA’s Executive Vice President Dennis Daggett: “Automation, which I believe we are going to be battling for the rest of...

Foreign Affairs Hezbollah: Down But Not Out Despite the gap in its command-and-control structure, the group has been galvanized by Israeli operations. Credit: image via Shutterstock That Hezbollah was dealt an unprecedentedly painful blow with the assassination of its leader Hassan Nasrallah is not up for debate. While Israel succeeded in taking out the Lebanese movement’s former leader, Abbas al-Musawi...

A new report uncovers the troubling ties between top VPN services like ExpressVPN and the Israeli security state, raising alarms about how much control Israel’s Unit 8200 has over your online privacy. An estimated 1.6 billion people rely on VPNs to carry out the most sensitive tasks online, from watching illegal videos to engaging in sexual or political activities. But...

Daniel J. Flynn Follow Their Stories: View More Daniel J. Flynn, a senior editor of The American Spectator, serves as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution for the 2024-2025 academic year. His books include Cult City: Harvey Milk, Jim Jones, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco (ISI Books, 2018), Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman...

The United Nations has been occupied planning out your future—a future of censorship, tyranny, global governance, indoctrination of children, and more—explained journalist Alex Newman to Glenn Beck on his hit radio show. The UN adopted, by consensus, a document titled “Pact for the Future,” shared Newman, who attended the UN’s latest summit in New York City. Under the scheme, the...

AP Images Iranian missiles in the sky as seen from Gaza Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to the Iranian missile attack, warning Israel will retaliate in response: “Iran made a big mistake tonight – and it will pay for it.” In a video statement posted on X, Netanyahu congratulated the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), citing the air defense system...

The new pact ‘does nothing to advance U.S. interests,’ House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman says. NEW YORK CITY—The United Nations and its member governments, with strong support from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), adopted a landmark agreement last week to bestow the U.N. with more power and influence in global affairs. The controversial agreement, known as the Pact for the...

Is there any daylight between admitted communists and Democrats? The New American compared the platforms of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) with the positions of the Democratic Party.The first issue mentioned on communist’s 2024 platform is one near and near to Democrats, one of the few that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris hasn’t publicly backtracked on. The communists declare: “We...

The United Nations (UN) is actively partnering with companies like Google to censor alternative media and journalists on issues like climate change and health, revealed Alex Newman on Flyover Conservatives. This is a part of a massive power grab to seize the internet, control the narrative, and secure the trust of the world in preparation for the next “crises.” While...

AP Images Ron Wyden Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) unveiled a sweeping piece of legislation on Thursday designed to reform the U.S. Supreme Court, addressing what he has described as a “legitimacy crisis” plaguing the institution.The bill, dubbed the “Judicial Modernization and Transparency Act,” proposes increasing the number of justices from nine to 15. This expansion would occur over three presidential...

martinedoucet/iStock/Getty Images Plus There’s “wisdom from the mouths of babes” and then there’s, well, what CNN found in a recent study. That is, despite liberals’ chest-thumping about their “tolerance,” they’re not the ones raising tolerant kids. Oh, it isn’t just that “Democrat-leaning” children are far more negative about Donald Trump than “Republican-leaning” children are about Kamala Harris. It’s also this:Liberals’...

Bytmonas/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a surprising move, the far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed an amicus brief last week with the liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that mirrored similar briefs filed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC).The lawsuit, United States v. Duarte, was brought by the federal government against one Steven Duarte,...

AP Images The Biden administration sent a taxpayer-funded email with a strong political message to millions of Medicare recipients. The email praised Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris for her role in healthcare reforms. Distributed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the communication has raised concerns. Critics see it as using government resources to push...

Foreign Affairs Summertime Blues in Old Europe? America’s freedoms remain its greatest strength; Europe is falling behind. Credit: image via Shutterstock Traveling in Europe as an American citizen, one is never far from the echoes of history. I was reminded of this during a weeklong visit last month to four Central and Eastern European nations – the Czech Republic, Austria,...

Arthit Pornpikanet/iStock/Getty Images Plus In an effort to convince voters she’s not anti-Second Amendment, Kamala Harris often emphatically claims that she herself is a gun owner. She even said, while cackling during her Oprah Winfrey interview, that anyone breaking into her home is “getting shot.” (Does this standard apply to breaking into countries, too?) But her Dirty Harry routine isn’t...

YouTube Marcus Allen An FBI whistleblower told a U.S. House subcommittee this week that the FBI retaliated against him for attempting to give the agency a complete picture of what occurred at the mostly peaceful protest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.Former staff operations specialist Marcus Allen told the Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the...