Policy issues

Sustained deterrence remains indispensable; however, diplomacy should be employed selectively to manage escalation risks, preserve strategic stability, and reduce the likelihood of miscalculation on the continent.

Where demonstrators move beyond protected expression and into unlawful entry, physical obstruction, threats, or intimidation within a house of worship, both traditional state-law doctrines and federal civil-rights statutes provide a coherent and complementary basis for accountability.

Elected officials must take immediate action to permanently sever NewsGuard’s connection to taxpayer-funded institutions and use the findings of previous hearings to expose its participation in collusion to suppress free speech and bankrupt independent news sources.

Burden-shifting is now the stated grand strategy of the republic in a world of renewed imperialism and spheres of influence.