National Interest Archive

There's a hunger to turn the page and leave the past behind.

We will soon learn whether he has fatally infuriated the Fellowship of the Furrowed Brow.

There's a Yiddish saying that "a schlemiel is somebody who often spills his soup." Which brings us to Donald Trump.

Did you catch Trump's 2020 campaign message, lodged deep within the State of the Union speech? "Here in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism."

Deep into Trump's State of Union speech, when it appeared he would go longer than Putin and Castro, he bellowed anew about a big beautiful border barrier.

In Chris Christie's telling, the buck stops everywhere — with the exception of the Oval Office.

Howard Schultz, the ex-Starbucks CEO who somehow thinks that mass-marketing lattes is a boffo presidential credential, was smacked upside the head yesterday on "The View."

There is a concept in the American system called "checks and balances."

The freshman California senator, who announced her presidential bid on Monday, has already made history.

It's a mystery why Team Trump keeps trotting out Rudy Giuliani to spin for Client-1. Every time he opens his mouth, he digs the hole deeper.

The big question now is whether William Barr can meet the standard set by William Saxbe. The preliminary verdict appears to be, "Meh."

Are we capable of connecting two dots? The fake border crisis distracts us from the true national emergency: A suspected Russian asset sits in the White House.

Alternative news: President Hillary Clinton storms out of a White House meeting after she doesn't get what she wants ...What do we imagine the reaction would be?

Theodore Roosevelt, who died 100 years ago yesterday, famously declared that dissent was a citizen’s duty: “To announce that ...

Today marks the end of all-Republican rule in Washington, thanks to the tallest blue wave since 1974.