Carl Graham

3 weeks ago | thedispatch.com | Peter Gattuso |Charlotte Lawson |Grayson Logue |Carl Graham

Steve Witkoff, the Trump administration’s special envoy to the Middle East, claimed on a recent episode of Tucker Carlson’s video podcast that Ukrainian residents in four Russian-occupied territories voted to continue living under Russian rule. While Russian officials did stage referendum elections in occupied Ukrainian territory, in both 2014 and in 2022, the United States and the United Nations refused to recognize their legitimacy and indicated the results were likely fraudulent.

3 weeks ago | thedispatch.com | Jamie Weinstein |Carl Graham |Timothy Sandefur |Grayson Logue

Plus: The former ambassador’s reaction to the Signal saga. Published March 31, 2025 Jamie Weinstein is joined by John Bolton, former ambassador to the United Nations and Donald Trump’s onetime national security adviser, to discuss the Trump administration’s mass deportation program, the “loss of American prestige,” and the Signal saga.

3 weeks ago | thedispatch.com | Carl Graham |David Drucker |Michael A. McFaul |Brian M. Riedl

National missile defense is not a new idea, but in a world of expanding threats and technological advances, many argue it’s one whose time has come. There’s a case to be made that the Cold War deterrence paradigm of mutually assured destruction (MAD) is no longer valid in the face of rogue-state nuclear proliferation, and that and related systems demonstrate the potential for such defenses at achievable costs. President Donald Trump can be counted among those making that case.

3 weeks ago | thedispatch.com | Timothy Sandefur |Kevin Williamson |Valerie Pavilonis |Carl Graham

The Monday Essay If ‘America First’ applies to architecture, why don't its acolytes prioritize the country’s greatest builder? Published March 31, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. Among the 36 executive orders President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office was one document that stood out as strangely … aesthetic.