Kari Donovan

The Remaining Chapters Explain How the Strategy Is Enforced in the Real World This article is the third part of a three-part series on President Trump’s National Security Strategy(NSS). The mission is to make the NSS easy to understand in three bites. So, the remaining chapters of the 2025 National Security Strategy, not covered in … Read more

The latest releases of Epstein-related records, in late Jan. 2026, do not establish criminal wrongdoing by Rep. Stacey Plaskett, to our knowledge. They do, however, reopen unresolved questions about her judgment, proximity to power, and the institutional culture of government in the US Virgin Islands (USVI), which Congress itself nearly addressed in late 2025. Resource … Read more

Celebrating American Greatness With American Motor Racing On January 30, 2026, Donald J. Trump signed an executive order that does something rare in modern public life. It unapologetically celebrates American excellence through sport. The Executive Order establishes the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington, D.C., an INDYCAR street race timed to America’s 250th anniversary. This … Read more

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