The Texan senator is a canny politician, but it isn’t clear that embracing neoconservatism is a winning gambit.

The new National Defense Authorization Act handcuffs the president to an antiquated European defense posture.

His whistle did not carry a specific tune—it was nothing like the melodic “family whistle” used by Frances McDormand to beckon her rock journalist son in Cameron Crowe’s movie Almost Famous. To the ...

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