Why do we spend billions of dollars protecting our prosperous allies?
10 questions with 'Whittaker Chambers' author - TheDC
Richard M. Reinsch II sits down with TheDC to discuss his provocative new book
TheDC Interview: P.J. O'Rourke - TheDC
How to interview P.J. O’Rourke on drugs while getting your mind blown and not embarrass yourself
The night the election maps turned Reagan blue
Today is the 30th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s stunning 1980 victory.
Why are the Chinese so afraid of Liu Xia bao?
China is upset that the Nobel Committee gave Liu its 2010 peace prize.
Conservatives without a cause
Before conservatives can tackle the crisis of growing government and spiraling debt, they’ll need to unite.
10 questions with "DUPES" author Paul Kengor - TheDC
The executive director for the Center for Vision and Values and a political science professor speaks to TheDC
Is this change Cubans can believe in?
Cuba plans to lay off half a million government workers as part of its larger push to reform its struggling economy. But is the island nation really changing?
The United States and Vietnam: China's migraine headache
The United States and Vietnam have approached military ties with caution, however. Both Democratic and Republican presidents have placed a higher priority on U.S.-China relations than on U.S.-Vietnam relations
Tax cuts, more spending, and more debt are the true opiates of the American people
We have been struck time and time again by the fact that the American voting public, on both ends of the political spectrum, actually has been persuaded and ‘numbed’ to believe that ever-increasing amounts of debt are ‘sustainable’ and ‘A-OK!’
Afghanistan and Vietnam: President Obama 1, Professional Historians 0
Though a frequent critic of President Obama’s policies, I reacted to Wills’ piece with a kind of tingling cognitive dissonance: sympathy for the President and, frankly, disdain for the profession I admire enormously
Gingrich: No deadline for U.S. withdrawal in Afghanistan - TheDC
Potential GOP presidential contender will quote Albert Camus and George Orwell during speech today
It's not the graveyard of empires - FP
If the U.S. and its allies end up failing in Afghanistan, blame it on their bad policy decisions, don’t blame it on a supersimplified version of Afghanistan’s history
Oliver Stone: Jews control the media, which is why the Holocaust is overplayed
If it were ever in doubt that one can be very talented and very stupid (or possibly simply venal), Oliver Stone’s recent interview with The Sunday Times surely settles the matter
Losing the game in Afghanistan
So, after nearly a decade of fighting, it is time to ask a simple question: Is this dead goat worth fighting for?
Revolutions are revealing
The fundamental principle of conservatism is freedom. Hard-working, law abiding, compassionate Americans whose motivation revolves around this principle are not to be feared but to be embraced
The 'useful idiot' phenomenon returns with a vengeance - TheDC
Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, and Rep. Jan Schakowsky flak for leftist leaders in Latin America
Spy swap or spy flop?
We needed lengthy conversations with each of these arrested agents. We needed to interrogate them thoroughly to determine their methods, their objectives, and, especially, who their handlers were. We needed to confront them with holes in their stories and delve, delve, delve for more information
INTERVIEW: McMahon, Schiff paint Connecticut red - TheDC
Linda McMahon is a petite and friendly woman with that magnetic smile that political consultants crave. But when she starts talking about the Democrats’ financial reform package, she gets a bit of an edge in her voice
BOOK REVIEW: 'William F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement' - TheDC
Edwards’s book provides a valuable and concise overview of a man who, along with Reagan and economist of liberty Milton Friedman, did as much as anybody to help liberty and conservatism