Seth Lipsky
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The Iran deal shouldn't be a template for a North Korean pact
No sooner had President Trump shaken hands with Kim Jong Un than President Barack Obama’s deputy secretary of state started arguing that the ideal template for the Korean talks is...
Belmont's history should warn you not to fall in love with Justify
What a super sesquicentennial is shaping up for Saturday. That’s the 150th running of the Belmont Stakes, where all eyes will be on Justify, the contender for the Triple Crown. Just...
Schumer's gas price complaints prove Democrats are out of ideas
The latest bit of shameless hypocrisy from Sen. Chuck Schumer is an attempt to blame rising gasoline prices on President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran deal. Remember,...
The hypocrisy of American election investigations into Israel
Special counsel Robert Mueller has sent his gumshoes to Israel. They’re reportedly looking into an Israeli firm that may have led “a social-media manipulation effort” designed to help elect President...
Here’s our chance to ditch talks with North Korea
Opportunity knocks, I say. Kim Jong-un’s sudden case of cold feet — North Korea’s warning that it may pull out of the Singapore Summit — could be the best outcome...
Panicked over the Iran deal's end? Remember Reykjavik
Remember Reykjavik. That’s my advice to those panicking over President Trump’s decision to walk away from President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Reykjavik was the site of a summit...
Mueller's questions prove Trump shouldn't talk
The questions special counsel Robert Mueller supposedly wants to put to President Trump make one thing clear — it would be folly for the president to sit for an interview...
France’s president just turned Trump into a statesman
So much for the idea that President Trump would be too ignorant and coarse to conduct diplomacy with Europe on a grand scale. And that he can’t handle differing points...
Will the North Korea deal be yet another US surrender?
Is the generation that rallied to JFK’s vow to bear any burden in the cause of liberty going to give it away in Korea? That’s the question as President Trump...
Finding a balance between education and religious liberty
Whose education is more sound and basic? Is it the youngster who knows more math than Bible? Or is it the youth who knows more Bible than math? There are...
The ridiculous snit over a Census citizenship question
Does the Constitution prohibit the Census from asking how many citizens America has? If that seems like the most confused question you’ve heard, you might have missed the morning papers....
The legal experts are all wrong on suing the prez
Nearly every legal sage I know thinks New York justice Jennifer Schecter was right in ruling this week that President Trump can be forced to appear in a New York...
Trump's strange trade-war bedfellow
President Trump may have lost his chief economic adviser over the trade war he’s hatching with China. It looks, though, like he gained one recruit — Charles “Smoot” Schumer. As...
Critics are wrong: Obamas' presidential portraits a huge success
It’s a sign of the times, painted by hand. It seems the new portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have nigh blown the roof off the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery...
Bibi's 'legal woes' are a sign of how US dysfunction has infected Israel
The recommendation of Israeli police that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted for graft looks to me like an acute case of a malady that is itself a threat to...
Why Lindsey Vonn is one of the most astounding athletes of all time
Let’s skip Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un and turn our attention to the Olympics in PyeongChang, where all eyes will be on one of the most astounding athletes...
Democrats' answer to Trump's open hand: Hope for impeachment
At least one thing is clear after President Trump’s first State of the Union speech. If the idea was to reach across the aisle for bipartisanship, the Democrats are having...
Tips for Joe Manchin on saving the center
Does news that Joe Manchin of West Virginia is going to run for re-election mean there’s hope yet for the Senate? I, for one, would certainly like to think so....
Judges need to stop trying to annul Trump's election
Could the fight over the Dreamers finally get the Supreme Court to put its foot down on the campaign by liberal district judges to foil Donald Trump’s presidency? It looks...
The price America pays for out-of-control special prosecutors
Call this the year of the wolf. I’m referring to a warning about special prosecutors and their ability to shake presidential confidence, from the pen of one of our most...