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Essays and Videos
Elizabeth Warren Illuminates the Left’s Foreign-Policy Divide
Donald Trump does not. “You think our country is so innocent?” he asked Bill O’Reilly soon after taking office. He wasn’t being critical. Trump’s point was that America doesn’t need to be morally superior to be worthy of loyalty and love. America is precious simply because it is ours. In a world of gangsters, America should not strive to be the police. It should be the toughest, shrewdest gangster of them all.
Dispute Over Airbnb In West Bank Settlements Shows ADL’s ‘Moral Schizophrenia’
The Anti-Defamation League has a disease. It suffers from an acute — and potentially fatal — form of moral schizophrenia.
The ADL was founded 105 years ago during the anti-Semitic conviction and later lynching of Atlanta business owner Leo Frank with a dual purpose. It was created “to stop…the defamation of the Jewish people” but also — crucially — “to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect …
Nancy Pelosi Just Showed Us Why She’s the Democratic Leader
A few years ago, the Brookings Institution scholar Thomas Mann said that during her time running the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi had proved to be the “strongest and most effective speaker of modern times.” To understand why, just look at the way Pelosi has engineered her likely return to the job over the past week. …