President-Elect Trump: The De Facto President

Now, in the real-time age of the internet, unending daily challenges, and an absentee White House, we need de facto President Trump more than we need the absentee President de jure.

The Recurring Tragic Lessons of Pearl Harbor

Japan’s surprise attack is a reminder that the best intelligence can be misread, people’s hopes can outweigh their common sense, and bureaucratic cultures can ignore inconvenient signals.

The Great Space Breakout

President Donald J. Trump’s appointment of Jared Isaacman to lead NASA was a wonderful moment for those of us who believe in space.

President Trump and America Need Tulsi Gabbard

Tulsi Gabbard is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve who served in Iraq, Kuwait, and the Horn of Africa. She has seen war in the Middle East, and she approaches endless conflicts with great skepticism about what they accomplish for America.

The Culture of Sports vs the Culture of the Elite Left

If Republicans thoroughly modernize government using the cultural values of sports, America will become a safer, more prosperous, and more successful country. It will also become clear that the modern Democratic Party is made up of elitists committed to values and principles that simply don’t work in the real world.

The Trump-American Culture vs. the Elite Culture

The most unexplored and ignored aspect of the nine-year odyssey of President Donald J. Trump is that, despite his wealth, Trump’s lifestyle and habits appeal to a far larger share of Americans than the elite passions for fine foods and highbrow books, movies, and television.

The Musk-Ramaswamy Opportunity

When President Trump announced he would create a Department of Government Efficiency and ask Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead it, he created a potentially enormous opportunity to rethink and modernize government.