Patrick Lawrence: ‘Brain Dead’ and Dangerous, NATO Proceeds
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost It is now five years since Emmanuel Macron, in one of those blunt outbursts for which he is known, told The Economist, in…
Patrick Lawrence: Netanyahu Goes for Broke
The Israeli prime minister has chosen this moment to mount a go-for-broke attempt to bring the U.S. into some kind of once-and-for-all conflict that would leave Israel supreme in the…
Patrick Lawrence: Power for the Sake of Power
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost When I awoke Saturday morning, I found my thoughts wandering back a decade, when my siblings and I plotted to get our father’s…
Patrick Lawrence: The State Failed to Break Assange
By Patrick Lawrence / The Floutist After apparently lengthy negotiations via Julian Assange’s attorneys, the WikiLeaks founder agreed to plead guilty to one felony charge of illegally obtaining and publishing…
Patrick Lawrence: 90 Minutes That Shook the Liberals Awake
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Give me a sec to think. I need to make a list. Two. The genocide in Gaza, the Middle East tinderbox, Bezalel Smotrich,…
Patrick Lawrence: Putin—Behind the Shoji
The Russian president’s time in Pyongyang and Hanoi gave clear evidence of the turn away from the West that Lavrov, the country’s foreign minister, announced at the start of the…
Patrick Lawrence: ‘Falling Gently Away’: The G–7 in Italy
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost That Group of 7 gathering on the coast of the Adriatic June 13–15 was truly a doozy, I have to say. Readers might…
Patrick Lawrence: Hunter Biden’s Charge of Lying Under Oath
The June 5 criminal referrals are indication enough that the Oversight and Judiciary committees are far from done, spent, or at a dead end.
Patrick Lawrence: Europe’s Elections as a Mirror
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Ah, those elections last week to the European Parliament, in which voters across the European Union administered a sound whack to the technocrats,…
Patrick Lawrence: The Afterlives of Lies
The hoax of “weaponized rape” in Gaza takes what seems a fatal hit.
Patrick Lawrence: Scott Ritter Silenced by Liberal Authoritarians
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost It is not difficult to be astonished these days, given how many things going on around us warrant astonishment. To pull something out…
Patrick Lawrence: Deaf and Blind: The Maladies of American Diplomats
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Here is a modest proposal, nothing too radical, just good sense. Turn over Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan to the Iranian authorities on…
Patrick Lawrence: US Endgame in Ukraine — War Without End, Amen
What happens when a powerful nation cannot afford to lose a war it has already lost?
Patrick Lawrence: The Price of Biden’s New China Tariffs
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost I love the photograph The New York Times ran atop Jim Tankersley’s May 18 story analyzing the inadvisable raft of tariffs on Chinese…
Patrick Lawrence: Putin and Xi in Beijing: Steps into the 21st Century
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping added another to their count of 40–odd summit meetings when the Russian and Chinese presidents convened in Beijing,…