When Thomas Wong set foot in the United States Embassy in Beijing this summer for a new diplomatic posting, it was vindication after years of battling the State Department over …
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As wars rage in Gaza and Ukraine, migrants stream illegally into the United States in record numbers and an intense 2024 campaign season looms, President Biden is lying low. Here …
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New Spin on a Revolving Door: Pentagon Officials Turned Venture Capitalists
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesWhen Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III and other top officials assembled for an event this month at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, they walked into a lesson in how …
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The mutiny took hold on Mackinac Island. The Michigan Republican Party’s revered two-day policy and politics gathering, the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, was an utter mess. Attendance had plummeted. Top-tier …
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US Innovative Technology Fund: James Geurts, former assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, also acquisitions executive at Special Operations Command (2021); Hugh Wyman Howard III, retired …
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Pentagon’s New Plans to Reduce Civilian Deaths Leave Questions Over Israel
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThe Pentagon has established new procedures for preventing and responding to civilian harm during U.S. combat operations, following up on a pledge by Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III to …
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Trump’s Team Prepares to File Challenges on Ballot Decisions Soon
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesFormer President Donald J. Trump’s advisers are preparing as soon as Tuesday to file challenges to decisions in Colorado and Maine to disqualify Mr. Trump from the Republican primary ballot …
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Biden’s Christian ‘Persecution’? We Assess Trump’s Recent Claims.
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesFormer President Donald J. Trump has repeatedly tried to appeal to Christian voters in recent weeks by accusing the Biden administration of criminalizing Americans for their faith. On multiple occasions …
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Young Iowa Republicans Raise Their Voices. Will Their Party Listen?
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesAs Vivek Ramaswamy walked out of an event this month at Dordt University, a small Christian college in northwestern Iowa, the school’s football players greeted him with bro hugs and …
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Former President Donald J. Trump’s rivals in the Republican race for president again lined up in his defense on Thursday after Maine barred him from its primary election ballot, the …