The Italy referendum and the populist march on Europe

Wasteful spending at the Pentagon (again)

The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon buried an internal study documenting no less than $12 billion in wasteful spending. The Post says bureaucrats were trying to...

7 min

Is populism a threat to democracy?

In the aftermath of the Cold War, the consensus of Western politics was that more countries would evolve into liberal democracies and stay that way. The European Union was...

34 min

Fake news, real guns and a top Trump advisor

"Pizzagate" and a top aide to Donald Trump.

9 min