There is a phrase that has always defined the American character in crisis: improvise and adapt. The Jones Act, passed in 1920, was not designed for a world in which the Strait of Hormuz goes dark and crude oil climbs past a hundred dollars a barrel. So President Trump has done what presidents in emergencies
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There is a particular quality to a presidential ultimatum delivered in capital letters on a social media platform in the early hours. It is not the language of persuasion. It is the
There is a darkness settling over Cuba that is no longer metaphorical. On Monday, the island’s electrical grid failed completely — a “total disconnection,” in the clinical language of the Ministry of
In an eight-minute phone call with Axios — his second recent conversation with the outlet on the administration’s war planning — President Trump made explicit what Washington had only implied: the U.S.
There are moments in Washington when the vote itself tells you everything. Wednesday was one of them. Senate Republicans closed ranks behind President Trump, defeating a Democratic resolution that would have curbed
