The real issue for voters in Michigan is what moral price is worth paying for an additional seat in the Senate.
People who can read and write for themselves have, historically, been good at choosing for themselves. What happens when the process goes into reverse?
Ideas that older voters know have long been discredited (“America first” among conservatives; socialism among progressives) can seem fresh and appealing to younger voters.
The US cannot bring about regime change in Iran. But it can do what it can to tilt the scales in favour of the millions of disaffected Iranians who can.
The US is stronger when anti-American dictators have solid reasons to fear our wrath: It restores deterrence and, in doing so, makes diplomacy more effective.
Human rights issues typified by cases such as the media mogul’s are not distractions from more important business. They are the important business.
Democrats should be careful whom they crush on. Gavin Newsom’s record as governor of California is a Republican strategist’s perfect foil.
We will learn more about the mindset of Sunday’s killers. But it is already reasonable to surmise that they thought they were “globalising the intifada”.
The 34-year-old state assembly member stands out for his monomania, double standards and affinity for extremists, and his views are more than disturbing.
The lie is that Israel is a settler-colonialist state, a nonnative invasive species that has no place in that land.
The only viable path to a sustainable Palestinian state is a cultural revolution among Palestinians that ends the fantasy of Israel’s destruction.
Universities once taught students to engage with argument rather than denounce it. Now they cater for credential-seeking customers, with sometimes tragic outcomes.
France, Canada and Australia aren’t aiming to do much to help actual Palestinians. Mainly, they seek to congratulate themselves.
The rise of right-wing parties across Europe, to say nothing of the US, shows that mass migration without express voter consent is politically intolerable.
No thoughtful person can be pro-Palestinian without also being anti-Hamas.
There is a difference between too many civilian deaths and the extermination of a category of people for no other reason than that they belong to that category.
A candidate who refuses to condemn the phrase “globalise the intifada” isn’t participating in democratic debate; he’s giving moral comfort to people who deliberately murder innocent Jews.
No matter how one feels about this president and the rest of his policies, the decision to use force to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons deserves respect.
First, the US President should drop bunker busters on Fordow. Then, he should drop a diplomatic bunker buster on Tehran — the proverbial offer it can’t refuse.
Understatement and confidence, decency and expectation; that certain idea of the United States for which the country was once so admired, is evaporating.
