Proving that she is the single best political analyst in America, Amy Walter has coined the perfect term to describe why the Democrats fail: Hopium. As in, a drug Democrats take before every election to convince themselves they’re bound to win, even when the numbers show their strategy is failing…

There are few cooler machines that go zoom than a jet fighter, and even in the drone age crewed aircraft are proving their worth over Ukraine. Trouble is, sooner or later Ukraine’s fleet of MiG and Sukhoi combat jets will run out of spare parts. They were built in the…

The fight against climate change was doomed by activists’ refusal to focus on the one issue that matters above all others: Power. Understanding why the climate is getting so weird isn’t hard. Double the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the planet’s average temperature increases by around 2…

As broken as the United States is these days, it doesn’t take a supervillian to work out how to make the whole thing crumble in a flash. Heck, give it a couple more years and the country’s inept leaders are set to accomplish the job all by themselves. However: never…

In power politics, when lots of stuff starts to happen at once it’s usually a sign that campaign season has begun. In recent weeks, the Democrats have launched a flurry of moves clearly designed to limit their losses this November. American politics is mostly theater, which is why it just…

The war in Ukraine is a classic case of a conflict that takes on an independent life of its own. If you asked almost any analyst back in February how long the Russian assault on Ukraine could last, they’d have said weeks, a few months at most. But history shows…

China has launched an unprecedented set of extremely aggressive military exercises that more or less surround Taiwan. So, uh, this is not good, mmkay. It proves exactly why Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was so utterly irresponsible, a naked political maneuver that stands a very real risk of starting a horrific…

Wanna know the real reason the world seems so frickin’ doomed? The Boomer generation is starting to die — and its leaders have realized their end is nigh. Finally forced to confront their own mortality, they are staring down an awful truth: The long bitter struggles they’ve waged across a…