America is Baaack!

Amidst all the endless repetition, baseless speculation, psychobabble and tips on “life hacks” that fill our “news” these days, something really important almost got lost last weekend. Yes, our media reported it. But few, if any, grasped its full significance. The event, of course, was the House’s passage of the aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The first-order effect—pulling Ukraine’s rapidly melting irons out of the fire—got well discussed. But almost lost in the shuffle was an equally vital question: what does it mean for us? What does it...