Nadia Volkov

Republicans spent years promising border security and holding DHS funding hostage. Now Trump is reportedly backing a Senate bill that funds most of it — and the base should be asking why the leverage was never used.

Democrats are suddenly talking economics instead of identity politics. Don't mistake a messaging pivot for a change in governing philosophy.

Democratic Senate candidates are already running away from Chuck Schumer. When your caucus won't stand next to you in campaign photos, the writing isn't on the wall — it's on the yard signs.

A basketball game in March is just a game. Unless you understand what it represents about competition, earned victory, and why some institutions survive.

The world is rediscovering that geography matters — and the nations that control strategic chokepoints are rewriting the rules of trade, energy, and military power. America is late to this game.

When morale collapses and the institutional response is punishment for satirical songs, you don't have an army problem — you have a bureaucracy problem.

300+ Chinese 'fishing vessels' operate in disputed waters with military communications, AIS transponder manipulation, and government subsidies. This is maritime militia, not fishing.

An American citizen — a retired FBI agent — vanished in Iran in 2007. Washington has spent nearly two decades producing bureaucratic procedure instead of answers.

Universities have tripled their counseling staff and the crisis keeps accelerating. At some point, you have to ask whether the treatment is part of the disease.

Markwayne Mullin has a record of actually showing up. But the Nonprofit Security Grant Program's structural problems will outlast any secretary.

Soccer rivalries reveal something about national identity that immigration bureaucrats will never understand. The problem isn't people moving—it's the state pretending it controls them.

While the West debates emissions targets, Russia is militarizing the Northern Sea Route. Seventeen new bases since 2015. This isn't environmental policy — it's strategic positioning.

Minnesota's Tim Walz has perfected the art of bureaucratic invisibility. Michele Tafoya isn't letting him stay invisible anymore.

Tom Emmer said what most Minnesotans are thinking: if the fraud coverup allegations are true, these men belong in a cell, not a press conference.

Trump talked for two hours and Democrats sat there proving his point. The opposition has grievances but no governing vision.

The House defeated the war powers resolution on Iran. Another bipartisan surrender of congressional authority dressed up as national security prudence.

While Cubans are dying in the dark, Democratic members of Congress are writing letters to the White House demanding more favorable treatment for a dictatorship.

I grew up in post-Soviet Ukraine. The government expansion Americans debate? I've seen how it ends.

Most post-conflict states stagnate. Kosovo grew. The diaspora-driven model that's turning a Balkan underdog into an EU candidate deserves study.