Mandatory military service is under discussion once more in Europe. The reasons? The possibility of Ukraine’s defeat looms large, as does the threat of a future president Donald Trump abandoning NATO. Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense…

While the Western world had been anxiously watching whether the United States would come to Ukraine’s aid, right-wing conservatives were doing everything in their power to thwart the support. On Saturday, six months after taking…

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The U.S. — and the Republican Party — dodged a geopolitical disaster on Saturday with the House passage of military aid to allies in Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific. But the moment shouldn’t…

The Supreme Court heard a case this week with big implications for prosecutions of accused Jan. 6 insurrectionists. Unsurprisingly, the matter has polarized onlookers — with each side insisting that there’s a clear legal, and…

Speaker Mike Johnson is teeing up votes in the House on U.S. aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan to take place this weekend, even as Republican critics in the bleachers threaten his job. Mr. Johnson…

One night not long ago, I went to hear a good band at a local bar. I couldn’t stay past five songs. The volume was deafening, and I mean that literally — as in “if…

Summer is two months away, yet the Texas power grid is already swooning. On Friday the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot) asked power generators to postpone scheduled maintenance early this week “to help alleviate…

The principle that some products are available to adults and not children is uncontroversial. Access to weapons, alcohol and pornography is curtailed in this way because a level of maturity is the precondition for access…

The Ogallala Aquifer Summit took place in Liberal last month. About 200 stakeholders gathered to hear discussions about the future of irrigated agriculture in those areas that overlay the Ogallala. Given publicity about the decline…