China in recent years has embarked on a breakneck modernization of its military, and they aren't hiding the ball about it. They parade their new systems every year on Tiananmen Square. Their newly-commissioned carrier Fujian is the first non-American...
Background: The Shadow War
For decades, Israel and Iran have been locked in what is often referred to as a "shadow war," a long-running conflict fought mostly through indirect means rather than open or direct confrontation. The rivalry dates back...
And so, we come to a final adjudication: Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs are unconstitutional. The Supreme Court justices ruled in a 6-3 vote that Trump's imposition exceeded his power given by the congress under a 1977 law asserting the...
The 2026 Midterm Elections are shaping up to be a blowout against the Republican Party. In the 2025 November Special Elections, the Democrats swept all of the Virginia elected office races (Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General) and won the...
In my previous assertion on republicanism and the nature of states, "The Mint of Citizenry," I discussed, using the mint of Athens as a metaphor, the functioning of a citizens' republic, and more specifically the nature of the power...
As I, and many other brave souls, remain neutral in the midst of ICE raids, issues with Israel, and other foreign and domestic problems, it is clear that people have lost the ability to think critically and produce a...
On December 22nd of 2025, the Trump Administration announced for the first time since World War II, a new battleship class for the United States Navy, dubbed the "Trump-class battleship." It has been proclaimed that this will be "an...
It's not controversial to say that conservatism has undergone a massive shift in recent years. In 2016, most Republican candidates refused to condemn the Iraq War. Now, Republicans use "neocon" as a slur. The spearhead of this change was,...
In the early morning of January 3rd, on the refreshing break of a clean-slated new year, Donald Trump's animosity culminated in an order to carry out the Delta Force's long-planned invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of Venezuela's dictator in...
