Author: Tevi Troy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has nominated President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize. At a White House meeting in which he presented Trump with the letter nominating him, Netanyahu said, “He’s forging peace as we speak in one country, in one region after the other. So I want to present to you the…

The Oval Office is an intimidating place. More than once, I heard President George W. Bush talk about people waiting in the West Wing reception area who he knew were gnashing their teeth and waiting to give him a piece of their mind. But once they were ushered into the Oval Office, he said, they…

In a recent interview, White House special counsel Alina Habba raved about the collegial atmosphere in the West Wing to reporter Jessica Rosenthal. According to Habba, “Everybody is collaborating. There is zero drama.” To this, Rosenthal said, “Events, no drama. May that continue.” Of course, Habba is a White House aide, so we should take…

It’s a bit of a strange year for lamentations. Conservatives are generally bullish over the election results, and the most prominent deaths of the year are ones that are perhaps more causes of celebration than anything else. I am thinking here of Hamas’s Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and Iranian President…

As she walks her election tightrope, Kamala Harris is wobbling between supporting unpopular President Joe Biden and distancing herself from him. The dangers of this high-wire act were apparent on Oct. 8 when she was asked on The View whether she would’ve done anything differently from Biden. She gave a long pause and said, “There is…