Kari Donovan

FOCUS: President Trump’s Thursday Executive Order on Cuba is a clean, disciplined execution of the 2025 National Security Strategy’s core logic: defend U.S. sovereignty, protect the Western Hemisphere, treat economic power as national security, and confront hostile regimes close to home. It shows how the NSS moves from theory to enforcement. Resource for this article: … Read more

Why “Ends and Means” Are the Most Important Sections of the 2025 National Security Strategy Resource for this article, Part One of the National Security Strategy: Part II and Part III of the 2025 National Security Strategy are the intellectual core of the entire document. Part II defines what “success” actually means for the United … Read more

How Viral Investigations Reveal a Broader Cultural Crisis. Analyzing Community Organizing, Alinsky’s Influence, and the Normalization of Extremist Labels An investigative thread circulating widely on social media, shared by attorney Harmeet Dhillon Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice, has struck a nerve in national debates over protest culture, political rhetoric, … Read more

Unequal Protection Is Not Just in the Courts. It’s in the Streets. What Happened in Baltimore and Why It Matters Video journalist Ben Bergquam has released Part Three of his investigation into what unfolded at a public meeting inside the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland, and then on the public sidewalks outside. What … Read more

After a weekend of violent unrest in Minneapolis, the central question is no longer whether people have the right to protest. It is why some participants are still choosing confrontation when the situation has escalated to federal deployments, deadly force incidents, armed autonomous zones, and active crime scenes. Resource for this article: “Main character syndrome … Read more