The U.S. government, of course, has yet to be dismantled to the same extent as Iraq’s, though not for lack of trying. During the transition, Trump’s allies used the phrase “shock and awe” — another ...

David Frum, a former Republican turned independent, was once a prominent figure in the GOP. Frum, now 64, was a speechwriter ...

In 1860, the year before the Civil War started, the national debt was only $64.8 million. In the early 2000s, then-President George W. Bush launched the invasion of Afghanistan and the War on ...