Patrick Blanchfield

John McCain, the POW hero turned political icon, reached the apogee of his influence in a nation grown inured to constant war.

It’s a memoir of a rolling-thunder disaster that’s still ongoing, the full wreckage of which could lead us practically anywhere.

The problem isn’t whether or not people “politicize” violence like the nightmare in Portland.

There is a fundamental synergy between Democratic chauvinist exceptionalism, GOP clash-of-civilizations dogma, and Trump’s grotesque strongman antics. The Democrats may prefer a reboot of Cold War apocalypticism; Trump, for his part, looks eager to tear up global treaties, ...

You’ve seen or heard it at least once this election season: some new outrage denounced by politicos and journalists as more appropriate to a “banana republic” than to the United States. From CBS’s Bob Schieffer to The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson, and from New ...