Geopolitics

The “deep state” isn’t real—there’s no smoky backroom of rogue bureaucrats plotting to subvert democracy. But there is a sprawling, entrenched bureaucratic apparatus that frustrates elected leaders, slows agendas, and…

Illegal immigration, wrote Matthew Continetti, is “the focal point of our age. And it has the potential to break the nation apart.” Not because of its scale—unauthorized immigration has remained…

There is a growing chorus about a “new world order,” but much of the language surrounding it is vague and recycled, attempting to impose clarity on a moment defined by…

A collapsing world order, market chaos, trade wars, and recession fears—JPMorgan Chase put it bluntly: last week delivered “a year’s worth of economic turbulence.” Some blame Trump. Others see it as…

Oliver Wiseman wrote this week that the Trump team sees much of the U.S. government as beyond repair. Instead of propping up failing institutions, they’re tearing off the facade and…

“Control oil, and you control nations; control food, and you control people.” Whether Henry Kissinger said this or not is unclear, but its truth is undeniable. By that logic, the…

To cut or not to cut, that is the question. I’m talking about OPEC, not the Federal Reserve—but both groups should read Hamlet’s soliloquy and contemplate the perils of hubris.…