Editorials

Editorial: Trump’s Greenland Fixation

President Donald Trump’s revived interest in acquiring Greenland has shifted from eccentric curiosity to something more unsettling. What once sounded like an off-hand provocation...

Editorial: Israel Comes of Age

Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration that Israel intends to phase out U.S. military aid over the next decade marks one of the most consequential — and...

Editorial: A Lie That Erases the Dead

When Tucker Carlson declared recently that not a single American has been killed by radical Islam since Sept. 11, 2001, he was not offering...

Editorial: Minnesota’s Fraud Scandal Is a National Warning

Over the past several years, Minnesota has become the unlikely center of a major public sector fraud breakdown. Investigations have uncovered widespread abuse of...

Editorial: Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Mar-a-Lago last week with what most leaders would call a strategic success. In his fifth in-person meeting of...

Editorial: Diplomatic Firestorm Over Somaliland

Israel’s decision to recognize Somaliland hit a geopolitical nerve far beyond the Horn of Africa. What might have been framed as a bilateral diplomatic...

Editorial: The Qatar Affair Cannot Be Wished Away

The so-called Qatar Affair — a phrase whose understatement borders on evasion — has emerged as one of the most serious integrity crises to...

Editorial: A Legal Act, A Dangerous Precedent

The overnight raid that seized Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flew them to New York has produced two distinct debates. One...

Editorial: Trump Monument Syndrome

It is becoming difficult to decide whether to laugh, cringe or simply marvel at the ingenuity of today’s Republican Party as it works —...

Editorial: A Hemorrhaging Conservative Right

The American right is fracturing in public, and the fault line is no longer trade, immigration or even Donald Trump. It is antisemitism —...