American Thinker

Contrary to the headlines, it is time to move on from tariffs. Yes, the April 2 Liberation Day announcement was poorly handled. Yes, there is an unfitting dishonesty in painting trade deficits as an economic problem.…

This month, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials accused the U.S. of “blackmail” over the Trump administration’s revived tariff strategy. But if there’s any regime on Earth that understands the mechanics of blackmail, it’s the CCP.…

In less than three years universal school choice policies have been adopted by 14 states, all Republican leaning. Given the growing desire of education reformers to make similar progress in America’s more liberal bastions, the recently…

In his book Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath, the former president repeatedly complained about President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “fright campaign” to get the United States into…

President Trump’s tariffs on Canadian imports triggered the usual response from Ottawa. First under Justin Trudeau and now under his successor, Mark Carney, Canada’s political class didn’t just protest—they retaliated, slapping on symbolic…

Back in the day, our good friend Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt gave it to us straight. Politics is about friend vs. enemy. You gift your friends; you defeat your enemy. Experts call this the friend/enemy distinction.In the old days this was…

The debate over birthright citizenship has a long history. Thanks to President Trump, the issue is again crying out for reconsideration. Although birthright citizenship contrasts with citizenship by naturalization, the factors influencing…

While the focus of the Trump administration has been on seizing control of the Panama Canal from China, another port on the Pacific Ocean side of South America, CopiaPort-E in Chile, billed as the “Rotterdam of the Pacific,” demands…

You do not have to wade far into the recently declassified Crossfire Hurricane documents to be shocked. I had only read three pages of the FBI’s December 19, 2016 interview with the DoJ’s Bruce Ohr before learning just how early in…

The ink was barely dry on the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision lifting the stay on deportations under the Alien Enemies Act when the legacy media began breathlessly quoting Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent—in apocalyptic tones. Her…