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The history of the ancient world is, in no small measure, a chronicle of men who confused the beginning of war with the achievement of policy. Thucydides opens his account of the Peloponnesian War not with battles but with arguments — the arguments made by those who convinced Athens that it could fight Sparta, Corinth, and the Aegean world simultaneously without exhausting the treasury or the will of its citizens. Athens had the power. What it lacked was the wisdom to know when power's purpose is deterrence rather than deployment. Read More.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has announced it is working to declassify a secret opinion issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that could reveal how federal intelligence agencies have been circumventing post-reform restrictions on searching the private communications of American citizens. Read More.

There is a pattern observable across the long arc of revolutionary movements, from the Jacobins of revolutionary France to the ideological convulsions of the twentieth century, in which the very constituencies that gave a movement its moral energy are eventually consumed by the demands of ideological purity. Read More.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just quietly retired its most famous doomsday scenario — the one used for a decade to justify everything from $51 billion climate lawsuits to Green New Deal spending to your higher electric bills. Read More.

Gas is $4.55 a gallon. Nationally. Every single state in America is now above four dollars — for the first time in years — heading into Memorial Day weekend. Read More.

Bill Cassidy is gone. A sitting United States Senator, gone. Beaten in his own primary by thirty points. That's not a loss — that's an execution. Read More.

Chris Van Hollen flew to El Salvador. On his own schedule — on your time — he made a personal pilgrimage to visit a man the Biden DOJ identified as a gang member with MS-13 ties, a man accused of rape. He went there to make a political point. Read More.

A court ruled against the Democrats. So they decided to destroy the court. Read More.

Iran fired missiles, drones, and armed fast attack boats at three United States Navy destroyers transiting the Strait of Hormuz this week. Read More.

Comey Got Indicted. His Supporters Showed Up With Signs Calling for the President's Death. Read More.

After a 76-day shutdown, Congress has reopened most of the Department of Homeland Security. But key immigration enforcement agencies — ICE and Customs and Border Protection — were left out of the main funding bill, leaving Republicans to pursue a separate path to secure the border and keep America safe. Read More.

The 60-day clock runs out Friday. That's today. And Lindsey Graham — a United States senator who once called himself a constitutional conservative — is telling the President of the United States to ignore the law. Read More.

Jimmy Kimmel went on television and told his audience that Melania Trump looked like an "expectant widow." Days later, a man charged a Secret Service checkpoint at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in what law enforcement is calling the third assassination attempt against Donald Trump in under two years. It was, by one count, the tenth attempt on the president's life since he entered politics. Read More.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, seeking to halt the development of a new immigration detention facility in the city of Surprise. The move comes as the federal government works to expand detention capacity amid renewed efforts to enforce immigration laws and secure the southern border. Read More.

Illinois lawmakers are once again clashing over how political power is drawn and maintained, as Democrats move forward with a proposed constitutional amendment they argue is necessary to safeguard voting rights. Republicans, however, see something very different—an effort to lock in partisan advantage under the guise of reform. Read More.