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In the contention over the U.S. peace plan for Ukraine, the Europeans are in their accustomed role -- carping from the sidelines.

Not only can the once-great European powers no longer dictate the fate of far-flung parts of the world, they can't even dictate the end of a war involving a European country whose fate they deem crucial to their ...Read more

It's not what you know, it's who you know -- even if you may have committed terrible crimes.

That's the Jeffrey Epstein version of the famous line about success.

The massive tranche of Epstein emails released by the House Oversight Committee didn't reveal any smoking guns about Donald Trump, but they did highlight a vast conspiracy to help ...Read more

The debate over affordability is now truly and fully joined.

After the off-year elections, Democrats are coalescing around a cost-of-living message that makes more sense than their anti-Trump obsessions (not that we aren't going to hear a lot about those). For its part, the White House has concluded that affordability is a vulnerability, and ...Read more