National

America no longer wakes up to news. It wakes up to damage reports, and the reports keep piling up faster than the country can absorb them. In south Minneapolis, a woman died after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fired three shots into her vehicle during a street confrontation that played out in full view of cameras and bystanders.

In an unprecedented escalation of U.S. foreign policy over the weekend, President Donald Trump announced that the United States military captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and transported him to New York to face federal drug and narco-terrorism charges. While the debate over U.S. intervention abroad rages, many Americans are asking a different question: Are we spreading ourselves too thin?

On Christmas Day, American missiles struck northern Nigeria. The administration said the targets were terrorists killing Christians. But the same administration had already stripped away humanitarian aid, dismantled U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) programs, shut asylum doors, and blocked visas for Nigerians fleeing violence. The hand that claimed salvation had already withdrawn food, medicine, and refuge.