Victor Davis Hanson

President Donald Trump pauses as he speaks in the East Room of the White House on Jan. 24, 2020, in Washington.

Commentary: Trump’s approach to foreign policy once seemed crazy. But it’s working.

February 3, 2020 at 11:18 p.m.

When candidate Donald Trump campaigned on calling China to account for its trade piracy, observers thought he was either crazy or dangerous. Conventional Washington wisdom had assumed that an ascendant...

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks Nov. 1, 2019, at the Democratic Party Liberty and Justice Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa.

Commentary: What draws millennials to socialism even as it fails elsewhere? Start with being woke and broke.

November 6, 2019 at 9:42 p.m.

Multiple forms of socialism, from hard Stalinism to European redistribution, continue to fail. Russia and China are still struggling with the legacy of genocidal communism. Eastern Europe still suffers after...

California has been trying to build a high-speed rail line for years, but this section in Fresno, shown May 8, 2019, is all there is to show for the efforts.

Commentary: Recall how America built a transcontinental railroad in 6 years? Past generations did everything better

October 9, 2019 at 8:55 p.m.

Many of the stories about the gods and heroes of Greek mythology were compiled during the Greek Dark Ages. Impoverished tribes passed down oral traditions that originated after the fall...

A "Just Fly It" T-shirt is designed with a Betsy Ross flag at Colonial Flag on July 5, 2019 in Salt Lake City. The Betsy Ross flag became controversial when Nike removed shoes with the flag on it from stores after Colin Kaepernick expressed concern about what the flag represented.

Commentary: The war over America’s past is really about its future

July 17, 2019 at 8:27 p.m.

The summer season has ripped off the thin scab that covered an American wound, revealing a festering disagreement about the nature and origins of the United States. The San Francisco...

President Donald Trump speaks during the 2019 U.S. Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony May 30 in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Trump has become the Democrats’ great white whale

May 31, 2019 at 9:21 p.m.

One way of envisioning the Democratic obsession with President Donald Trump is as an addiction. We have seen the initial impeachment efforts; the attempt to get him under the emoluments...

Hillary Clinton, shown April 23, 2019, at the TIME 100 Summit in New York, has a history of behavior that might have invited indictment if not for the positions of power she has held.

Beware of Clinton projection syndrome

May 31, 2019 at 9:26 p.m.

Hillary Clinton recently editorialized about the second volume of special counsel Robert Mueller's massive report. She concluded of the report's assorted testimonies and inside White House gossip concerning President Trump's...

President Donald Trump pumps his fists as he arrives to deliver remarks at the Lima Army Tank Plant on March 20, 2019, in Lima, Ohio.

Can Donald Trump win again in 2020?

May 31, 2019 at 9:16 p.m.

In 2016, Donald Trump overwhelmed 16 qualified Republican primary rivals and became the first major-party presidential nominee without prior political or military experience. Against even greater odds, Trump defeated in...

Dutch students protest for urgent measures to combat climate change in The Hague on Feb. 7, 2019. The issue first came to life as "global warming."

How ‘global warming’ became ‘climate change’ and the danger of euphemisms

May 31, 2019 at 9:23 p.m.

The reinvention of vocabulary can often be more effective than any social protest movement. Malarial swamps can become healthy “wetlands.” Fetid “dumps” are often rebranded as green “landfills.” Global warming...

Then-vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden winks during a campaign stop at South Lake High School in St. Clair Shores, Mich., on Sept. 15, 2008.

The mythologies of ‘Joe being Joe’ Biden

May 31, 2019 at 9:17 p.m.

Some polls put 76-year-old Joe Biden as the Democratic front-runner for the 2020 presidential election. There is certainly some logic to that reckoning. Biden has far more experience than any...

Former President Barack Obama addresses the crowd in support of Georgia Democratic governor candidate Stacey Abrams during a rally at Morehouse College on Nov. 2, 2018, in Atlanta.

Obama and the perpetual presidency

May 31, 2019 at 9:25 p.m.

Former President Barack Obama recently continued his series of public broadsides against his successor, President Donald Trump. Obama's charges are paradoxical. On one hand, Obama seems to believe that he,...

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