The new British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has commented on a report he commissioned that found the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is in a deplorable condition. The report’s findings echoed media investigations of the past which discovered unacceptably long waits for treatment, ...

In “The Wizard of Oz,” the stentorian power of the great Oz is revealed as a fraud when Toto the dog (how apt) pulls back the curtain to reveal a squat, middle-aged man speaking into a microphone. Oz’s power was all artifice. On Sept. 10, Kamala Harris pulled the curtain to reveal a ...

Last week, the German newspaper Bild broke a story that was too unsurprising to be much of one. According to Bild, a document seized from a computer used by Hamas strongman Yahya Sinwar summarized Sinwar’s strategy for pressuring Israel into a ceasefire deal that would enable Hamas to ...

If you want another example of vanishing U.S. deterrence, consider the Biden Administration’s failure to stop Iran from providing Russia with ballistic missiles. Citing unidentified U.S. and European officials, the Journal reports that a recent arms shipment from Tehran to Moscow included ...

Famously, a message from President Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary of State, John Hay, electrified the 1904 Republican convention: “This Government wants Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead.” Ion Perdicaris, a wealthy Greek-American, had been kidnapped in Morocco by a bandit named Ahmed ...

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date,” wrote Shakespeare, but the Bard didn’t know what the summer of ‘24 had in store. The cicadas are still singing, but they won’t be for long. The days are getting shorter, the nights fall faster. And the garden knows it; the last batch of ...