National Interest Archive
Are we worthy inheritors of what the D-Day fighters bequeathed us?
5 years ago
Naval gazing: Trump is still bedeviled by a dead man
The quintessential Ugly American has arrived in England, hurling insults at London's mayor, but presumably his mood will be lightened by the absence of the USS John McCain.
5 years ago
Mueller to Congress: If not him, who? If not now, when?
It was nice to finally hear Robert Mueller's voice, even though he lards his speech with circumlocutious double negatives.
5 years ago
Video fakery and the high cost of lies
Donald Trump's fans have had a tough time combating Pelosi, so apparently their only recourse was to manipulate video footage to smear her as semi-nuts.
5 years ago
Trump banishes Harriet Tubman to the back of the bus
Harriet Tubman, heroine of the Underground Railroad and worker for women's suffrage, was tapped by Obama's Treasury to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill starting in 2020.
5 years ago
Meet the conservative Republican who’s putting country over party
Justin Amash, a rare Republican congressman who refuses to genuflect at Donald Trump's feet, has been taking heat lately for daring to speak his mind.
5 years ago
We’re one Supreme Court case away from outlawing abortion
Anyone who still assumes that legal abortion is here to stay, and that Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land, should take a hard look at what's happening right now.
5 years ago
What Democrats fear most in 2020: A bullish Trump economy
We need to acknowledge the reality that presidents typically get re-hired when voters believe the economy is on the upswing.
5 years ago
3 reasons why America’s worst businessman will keep his cultists
Trump's fans are eternally tethered to the delusion that he's a winner.
5 years ago
The hardball constitutional crisis has arrived
This brass-knuckled president is veritably daring Congress to impeach him.
5 years ago
Anti-science ignorance stokes public health crisis
We Americans don't agree about much anymore, but at minimum, there should be a consensus that science in the decades since World War II has been a boon to public health.
5 years ago
‘The most significant domestic terrorist threat,’ rinse and repeat
10 years ago this month, when the Chabad of Poway synagogue shooter was nine years old, Barack Obama's DHS authored a dire report about growing extremist violence in America.
5 years ago
Joe Biden’s Washington experience: Asset or albatross?
Joe Biden is reportedly poised to enter the presidential race Thursday, which is a good thing, if only because we can finally retire the tired pun that Joe is Biden his time.
5 years ago
The impeachment imperative: Will Democrats put country over party?
This is no time for dereliction of duty.
5 years ago
The Mueller report: ‘No person is above the law’
Does a guy who played fast and loose with our national security — and who, at the Helsinki summit, endorsed Putin's denial of election interference — deserve another term?
5 years ago
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