John F. Di Leo

The Houthi rebels have been fighting in Yemen for thirty years, as part of the general power struggles between Shia and Sunni that define so many Islamic countries. While their disruption was primarily confined to their home turf of…

In the latest tragic news from Israel, we learned that the Israeli Defense Forces was in the process of a rescue mission, having intelligence that indicated where six of the remaining living hostages were, in a tunnel in Gaza.Hamas murdered…

How are you supposed to run a party convention? And how are you supposed to behave when you stage one?Can’t look to the Constitution for guidance; the Constitution was silent on political parties, since its writers hoped against…

For months, election-watchers have wondered: will Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. make it onto enough states’ ballots to have an impact? Will he have the money to run a real campaign? And most importantly, who will he hurt…

Kamala Harris is doing better in the polls than Joe Biden was. No surprise there.But that’s not just because he’s a dementia patient and she’s not. There’s more to it than that. In the political world, it is often assumed that…

On Sunday, July 21, 2024, the White House issued a written statement in which Joe Biden announced that he was withdrawing from his reelection campaign, while intending to remain in office for the six remaining months of this term.The…

On the Foreign Policy night of the 2024 Republican National Convention, there was a great deal of focus on the eruption of antisemitism and anti-Israeli violence that has surfaced in recent years, most particularly since Hamas’ Oct. 7…

For the past four years, we have been constantly reminded of “the insurrection,” a brief moment on January 6, 2021 when a couple hundred unarmed people -- some of them demonstrators, some of them FBI plants, some of them tourists going…

A recurring theme as we live our lives in modern America is the old saying, “the generals are always fighting the last war.”In elections, the application of the saying is to design a campaign to redress the special types of defeats we…

The first official presidential debate of 2024 was held on June 27, and the reactions are fascinating.Joseph Robinette Biden, who has held offices in the Newcastle County Council, the United States Senate, and the White House for the past…