Sen. John Kennedy and Sen. Cory Booker sit on opposite sides of the dais, but that hasn't stopped Mr. Kennedy, Louisiana Republican, from admiring his New Jersey Democratic colleague.
President Trump has asked a judge to remove his blockade and allow the full shutdown and renovation of the Kennedy Center, saying he's fixed the problems that led to the court issuing an injunction earlier this year.
The Trump administration has started building the border wall through a west Texas section of the Big Bend region, marking the first major construction in an area of the U.S.-Mexico border where the administration's plans have met heavy opposition.
The first state visit by the leader of China in more than a decade takes place next week when President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington for high-stakes talks - and a little schmoozing - at the White House with President Trump.
MS NOW said its journalists were denied access to the White House grounds Saturday morning, a day after President Trump said he would ban the network and other outlets from the complex.
Mary Ryan may be a registered Republican but she has never voted for President Trump, turned off by his crass style of politics and chaotic approach to governing.
Nearly 20 million students have returned to America’s college campuses. Those of us who have spent our lives inside universities never tire of it. Back to school is one of the most exciting times of the year. This year, though, campuses are quieter. Universities have admitted 15% fewer doctoral students this fall, the second consecutive […]
President Donald Trump can deliver a timely economic win before the holiday shopping season by using the new U.S.-China Board of Trade to reduce tariffs on everyday consumer goods. Tariffs on imports from China have been defended as leverage against unfair trade practices and a tool to protect strategic industries. But not every product imported […]
When the chief executive of one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence companies says that his industry must slow down, we should listen. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently warned that AI capabilities are advancing faster than our ability to understand and control them. His concern — and much of the public debate — centers […]
The recent 7th Circuit opinion permitting in-home possession of AI-generated child sexual abuse material raises many questions regarding the relationship between protected speech and generative AI. While most people would say CSAM of any child — real or virtual — should be illegal, the decision relies on precedent from the 2002 Ashcroft v. Free Speech […]
In traditional diplomacy, progress is usually slow. The Trump administration does not follow that old script. When President Donald Trump renewed his demand to acquire Greenland earlier this year, foreign policy experts panicked. Critics dismissed the idea immediately, calling it entirely unrealistic. Yet, the United States, Denmark, and Greenland are now preparing to sign a […]
Is West Bank settler violence the hill that Israel’s friends want to die on? I ask as a lifelong admirer of the Jewish state. I marvel at the achievement of maintaining an open society in a lawless region. I remember the warm glow I felt, two decades ago, when the IDF general who had laid […]
Conservatives in Congress have started to separate government-worker unions, such as Randi Weingarten’s American Federation of Teachers, from “private-sector” unions, such as Sean O’Brien’s Teamsters. They know Weingarten and her friends are irredeemably liberal in their social policy and destructively socialist in their economic policy, so they’re treated as adversaries. But since almost 60% of […]
