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Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought's X-page bio includes the cryptic truncation: "Ephesians 2:4-5,   'But God.'" I kid you not. To be sure, neither does Russ. At first it seems an odd little epigram for a government official — doubly odd, given that he works for a satanic sociopath. Yet the New Testament citation explains a lot about the ghastly disemboweler of human decency. The clipped "But God" he punched into his brief bio is from the King James Versi

In the rarefied realm of Trump's high-flying and enigmatic diplomacy, there exists an exquisitely simple, straightforward key to comprehension. About whatever he says, assume the Hegelian position of its antithesis. About the Israeli cabinet’s war on Palestinians, “It’s peace in the Middle East” because “Phase 2 has started,” he said yesterday. It follows that its start would have had a beginning, and so the nations involved in Phase 2 would have known the when and where of t

In addressing the Israeli parliament today, Donald Trump accomplished what only yesterday was altogether unimaginable: He made his collected rhetorical works of surely unsurpassable malevolence, stupidity and inhumanity sound like Reinhold Niebuhr lectures. Trump slandered two U.S. presidents, his Democratic predecessors Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Trump turned to Israeli President Issac Herzog and said, "Hey, I have an idea, Mr. President. Why don't you give [Bibi Netanyahu]

In Peter Beinart's interview with Hussein Agha, a former Israel-Palestine negotiator and fellow at Britain's Chatham House, the guest...

This is what 20 Israelis will return to. This is what hundreds of thousands of Palestinians will return to.

Trump is now claiming victory in settling eight wars. Like "a lot of people" you may think that's up one from seven, that being logical...