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Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who defied President Donald Trump’s calls to help overturn the 2020 presidential election results in his state, on Wednesday announced he’ll run for governor of Georgia in 2026. “I’m a conservative Republican, and I’m prepared to make the tough decisions. I follow the law and the Constitution, and I’ll…

Top Democratic public affairs firm SKDK has cut short its contract with the Israeli government, for which it promoted Israel’s perspective on the conflict in Gaza. The firm’s work initially included media efforts to raise the profile of the tragedy of the Bibas family, three members of which were killed while in captivity in Gaza.…

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) defended constitutional protections for hate speech in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of conservative organizer Charlie Kirk. In an interview with POLITICO’s Rachael Bade, Cruz said people who engage in hate speech are not “immune from the consequences of your speech,” expressing support for companies that have taken disciplinary action…

Politics Trump’s Free-Speech Warrior? Behind the curtain with Darren Beattie, one of the new president’s most provocative personnel picks. (U.S. Department of State) “Everything is possible with Donald Trump,” one State Department source familiar with the hiring told The American Conservative.  This person was speaking of the shock retention of Darren Beattie as the acting…

Politics Will Trade Policy Be America First’s Iraq War? There are better and worse ways to do things, and there is no reason to dig in on the worse ways. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) There’s a fine line between conviction and partisanship. A helpful rubric is whether you have stopped asking the question, What if we’re…

Foreign Affairs On Iran, Trump Should Ignore Netanyahu A nuclear deal with Tehran would serve U.S. interests. Credit: KPG-Ivary President Trump has made a habit of dropping major news when Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the White House. In early February, during a joint news conference with the Israeli leader, Trump debuted his plan…

Economics Cold Breakfast in America From corn flakes to Legos, the consumer is on the business end of “economics.” ((Photo by Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images) Not long ago I found myself flipping through a biography of John Harvey Kellogg, the impresario of dry breakfast cereal. It was a very dull book. But it…

Foreign Affairs Erdoğan’s New Turkey—and Old? The “neo-Ottoman” dreams of American Turkey-watchers exceed reality. For Americans steeped in a post-Cold War “unipolar” understanding of world affairs, the foreign policy of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan can be hard to fathom. Whether in buying Russian-produced S-400 air defense systems over Washington’s loud objections in 2020, triangulating between Ukraine…