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The real history of American aid to Israel

Right before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would stop providing military aid to Israel, forcing the most dedicated Israel-obsessed antisemites to declare that this, too, was evidence of nothing more than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest scheme. However, as debate swirls over what this means for America and one of its most consequential foreign policy relationships in the world, it's worth pushing back on the underlying premise of all military aid: that America has been manipulated into giving up the goods. Nothing could be ...

A slippery slope to criminalizing politics

Politics has high enough stakes without the losers being sent to prison -- or losing their heads. Jailing opponents or condemning them to death is what dictatorships do, not democracies. But times are changing, rapidly, and democracy isn't what it used to be, thanks to a vengeful spirit that's taken hold from Brazil to South Korea, and we've had a taste of it as well. As Americans think about what's in store for the next two years after a new Congress is sworn in next January, with the 2028 presidential election now on the horizon, we should take heed of just how far "lawfare" is ...