Opinion

Excessive Western caution invites greater risk-taking by Putin, who always expects Biden and the West to pull back.

The new Cold War will probably be a protracted chill rather than a deep freeze.

Putin will escalate to whatever brute force is necessary to accomplish his war aim — and NATO must prepare.

NATO has limits to how much barbarism it will tolerate before being compelled to take humanitarian actions.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is going to cause a major disruption in global energy markets.

Even now, with voters saying inflation is their number one issue, Democrats still see no reason to slow the gusher of federal funds.

Working-class voters used to make up the heart and the soul of the Democratic Party. Joe Biden used to understand those voters instinctively.

Vladimir Putin could have just pulled up a comfortable chair, eaten popcorn, and watched the West self-destruct.

The world’s top climate scientists made clear that the transformation of global food systems would be instrumental in meeting climate goals.

Getting to this point has been over a year in the making as his team has made good on donor-driven commitments to the environmental left.

It is past time for Congress to take action to protect the climate, the outdoor recreation economy, and our planet. 

Now, more than ever, is the time to invest in a clean economy to dilute the power of foreign dictators, reduce costs to everyday Americans, and save the very planet we call home. 

Conference committee to adjudicate USICA and the COMPETES Act could build upon important but insufficient cybersecurity provisions in recent legislation.

Vladimir Putin's overconfidence in a swift and overwhelming victory is one reason for the lack of cyber-induced damage.

To move forward, we might need to raze the CDC and rebuild an agency for health security.

In their toxic combination of anti-vax ideology and an extravagant conception of religious liberty, lower courts are simply following the Supreme Court’s lead.

We need to put aside partisan politics regarding firearms and do what’s right for the safety of our citizens.

Secrecy frustrates the public’s right to know what the government does when it puts people to death.

Whether its bullets, blogs or Bitcoin, modern warfare is changing, and the winners and losers may depend on how technology gets employed on the battlefield

Clearly, the time for business as usual is long past. NASA needs to go all-in on the one area of human spaceflight that has been a complete success: commercial space.

The new realpolitik will include pressure for much higher defense spending and debates over the struggle between democratic and authoritarian regimes.

Americans who are considering putting Donald Trump back in the White House in 2024 have fallen prey to a false equivalence. 

Putin cannot create markets through propaganda, or compel international lenders by force of arms.

The participation of a second former trial judge could add much needed clarity to the Supreme Court’s procedural pronouncements.

For Ukrainians outside the U.S., the Biden administration could take an additional step: The attorney general could exercise his parole authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

There is hardly any major problem facing America with a solution that would be easier if the nation’s population were larger.

The recipe for reducing the gender pay gap is not simply stopping employers from forbidding workers from discussing pay.

It appears that we’re witnessing a new kind of discrimination based on race, one created by woke progressives.

Student loan forgiveness isn’t going to happen at least not now.

Child care is critical to sustaining a highly skilled workforce today.