The flip side of the Trump administration’s downgrading of the State Department is the insertion of Trump’s daughter and son-in-law into key foreign policy positions.  Perhaps the failure to appoint…

In a rare public statement while in Japan, Secretary of State Tillerson said: “I think it’s important to recognize that the political and diplomatic efforts of the past 20 years…

Here is the real cost of "freedom" in the US today: The Congressional Budget Office has just published its estimate of what Trumpcare will really cost: 24 million more people without…

A report from China puts the total net worth of the roughly 3,000 members of its legislature--delegates to the National People's Congress and alternates--at about $500 billion.  As more entrepreneurs…

Donald Trump’s repeated denials of responsibility for the death of a soldier in Yemen, and his efforts to shift that responsibility to others (President Obama in this case), are evidence…

Donald Trump's address to Congress yesterday (Feb. 28) earned him high marks, probably because the bar was set so low that even a smattering of rationality warranted applause. But the…