Vice President JD Vance's escalating public criticism of Israel is being read across Washington less as a foreign policy correction than as the opening move of a 2028 presidential campaign — one built on a wing of the Republican coalition that barely existed in national politics a decade ago. The remarks themselves have been unusually pointed for a sitting vice president. In … [Read more...] about JD Vance Courts the Anti-Israel Right in Early 2028 Positioning
JD Vance Blames Israel for Prolonging Iran War as Ceasefire Unravels
Five months after the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran, the war shows no sign of resolving into anything durable. What began as a defined military campaign in late February has degenerated into a cycle of ceasefire, collapse, and renewed strikes, with a 60-day memorandum of understanding now the latest attempt to impose an endpoint on a … [Read more...] about JD Vance Blames Israel for Prolonging Iran War as Ceasefire Unravels
Trump’s $1.4 Billion Crypto Year: A Disclosure That Doubles as a Conflict-of-Interest Ledger
The number is $1.4 billion, and the number is not the story. The story is what sits on either side of it. Donald Trump's 2025 financial disclosure, filed with the Office of Government Ethics and released June 30, runs 927 pages. It reports more than $1.4 billion in crypto-related income for a single year — the largest source of the president's personal earnings during his … [Read more...] about Trump’s $1.4 Billion Crypto Year: A Disclosure That Doubles as a Conflict-of-Interest Ledger
JD Vance and the Grifter Generation: No Allies, No Principles, Only Power
Allysia Finley's column this week says out loud what much of the pro-Israel right keeps muttering under its breath: that Donald Trump and JD Vance have drifted onto ground the anti-Israel left has occupied for years, and that the vice president is the one steering. Her framing is sharp, but it stops short of the harder conclusion. This is not a foreign-policy disagreement. It … [Read more...] about JD Vance and the Grifter Generation: No Allies, No Principles, Only Power
Trump’s Iran Deal: The U-Turn From Unconditional Surrender to All Carrots, No Stick
The war began in late February with a demand for unconditional surrender. It ends, four months later, with the President of the United States defending Iran's right to keep its missiles. Everything between those two sentences is the story of how a war of choice collapsed into a payment for the privilege of returning to the day before it started. Trump entered the conflict … [Read more...] about Trump’s Iran Deal: The U-Turn From Unconditional Surrender to All Carrots, No Stick