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Senate Democrat links budget cuts to Iran school bombing

Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.), who served on the U.S. National Security Council during the Obama administration, says that the missile strike on an elementary school in Iran may have been the result of Trump administration budget cuts. Kim told CNN in an interview Thursday that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth cut funding and staff at...

Putin’s prize: The oil price-spike

The hefty increase in the price of Urals oil will continue to ease pressure on the Russian defense budget.

There’s a new wedge issue playing out in Senate Dem primaries

Democrats in competitive primaries keep fighting about corporate PAC money. It has opened up a muddy and sometimes performative debate. The issue has played...

CNN’s Strait of Hormuz Allegation Makes No Sense

It’s hard to believe no one in the Pentagon anticipated this. It’s even harder to believe the U.S. has ‘few options’ to reopen the...

New Pew Poll Show Gains in Pro-Life Sentiment

The percentage of Americans who think abortion should be illegal in all or most cases increased by two percentage points.

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—March 13

1963—Ernesto Miranda is arrested in Phoenix on charges of abduction and rape. His interrogation by police yields a written confession. His confession is admitted...

The Trouble with Trump’s Maritime Action Plan

Two of the plan’s proposals, when taken together, show the Trump administration’s hostility to free trade, as well as a general naïveté.

The Long Afterlife of Hiss–Chambers Smears

A recent book continues to fuel revisionist history of the famous Cold War case.

Senate Republicans Should Not Unilaterally Disarm by Abandoning the Filibuster

Republicans can make Democrats feel the pain if they try again to destroy the filibuster. Why make it easy by doing their dirty work?

LISTEN: The Pentagon-Silicon Valley divide and who blinks first on AI?

Teresa Carlson, founding president of the General Catalyst Institute, joins the show to talk about whether the tech industry can bridge its differences with the Pentagon on AI, if a drone "bubble" is forming in the economy, and how the military can drive innovation.

Congressional Democrats say Trump tariffs will cost U.S. households more than $2,500 this year

President Trump is scrambling to replace the revenue the federal government lost when the Supreme Court struck down his biggest and boldest tariffs last month.

California’s trains to nowhere

Readers may be familiar with the humiliating saga of California’s bullet train project, which was successfully sold in 2008 as a project to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco via high-speed rail.  Voters narrowly approved the plan on the same day Barack Obama was first elected president. Its total projected budget was approximately $33 billion, spanning […]

Trump’s most favored nation policy threatens US competitiveness with China

Congressional enactment of the most-favored nation drug pricing policy urged by President Donald Trump in his State of the Union message would gravely harm American innovation, competitiveness, and national security in the emerging pharmaceutical technology race with China by crippling the market incentive system that has reliably propelled U.S. global leadership in this vital sector for decades. […]

Canada’s suicide pact is a warning for Americans

Proponents of legalized physician-assisted suicide often couch their arguments in the verbiage of pain and dignity. They say that people with terminal and agonizing conditions should be offered the option of “death with dignity” on their own terms. While there are counterpoints against this policy, free people tend to gravitate toward ideas that feature personal […]

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