The richest man on Earth is setting himself up as dictator of the United States.
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The CIA Director Received Cooler Gifts Than the Secretary of State. Here’s Why.
Bill Burns was America’s best diplomatic asset in the Biden years. He was also the nation’s spy chief.
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How Best to Utilize Tulsi Gabbard’s Unique Talents
Today on TAP: Why just director of America’s intelligence agencies? Why not Russia’s, too?
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The Way Biden Foreign Policy Ends: With a Bang and a Whimper
Today on TAP: More firepower to Ukraine and even more (if possible) ineffectualness toward Netanyahu
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The Bulls in Trump’s China Shop
Today on TAP: His China policy nominees are a relative oasis of competence, with a mix of sensible policy ideas and outlandish ones.
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What to Do About Elon Musk?
How did U.S. space and military communications programs become so dependent on one weird Trump ally whose actions border on treason?
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Everything You Wanted to Know About World War III but Were Afraid to Ask
For generations, we thought fear of nuclear holocaust would prevent world war. Is that faith obsolete?
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Dear Hackers: Please Send Me the Trump Campaign Emails
Today on TAP: I promise to treat them with the utmost in journalistic integrity.
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Red Weather Vanes
Maurice Isserman’s history of American communism documents both its achievements and its fatal obeisance to Soviet doctrines.
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The Wars Grow Longer
Despite Biden’s wishes, Israel says it’s in it at least until year’s end, while Ukraine now faces an unwinnable war of attrition.