Prices are about to go up — again — for the 83% of American households with at least one streaming subscription. The culprit behind this price hike, though, lies beyond America’s borders. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) recently tripled the revenue that streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube must set aside to […]
Washington does not typically indict foreign heads of state, deploy carrier strike groups to the Caribbean, and dispatch its CIA director on a surprise visit to Havana in the same week. When it does all three simultaneously, while delivering a direct public address to the target nation’s population, the moves represent a coordinated strategic signal. […]
Inaction on the abortion drug crisis will not come without consequences for this year’s midterm elections. As post-Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization retaliation dressed as COVID-19 relief, the Biden Food and Drug Administration removed the very last of any common-sense safety regulations on the abortion drug, mifepristone, making the dangerous drug available on demand […]
Someone took my picture last week. “Smile,” she said. “I am smiling,” I said. “No,” she said, with a slight edge that I recognized immediately — the edge of someone who is trying to be patient with a difficult subject — “I mean, actually smile.” The problem, which I have never been able to solve, […]
Just before Christmas in 1961, a KGB major named Anatoliy Golitsyn defected to the West after turning up unannounced at the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki. He came bearing secrets, revealing to his slightly bewildered hosts that Western intelligence agencies had been penetrated for decades by rather excellent Soviet spies. At the center of this effort […]
The Department of Justice indicted 32-year-old Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al Saadi for directing nearly 20 attacks and plots against American and Jewish targets across Europe and the United States. This is not abstract terrorism. Kata’ib Hizballah, the Iranian proxy he commanded in Iraq, has the blood of hundreds of American service members on its […]
Discover how modernizing South Texas land ports boosts trade, cuts supply chain costs, and keeps America competitive—learn more about proposed upgrades.
In the 1990s, I asked Milton Friedman how I should approach charitable giving. His answer was to invest in school choice, a concept he had invented decades earlier. At the time, school choice barely existed. Now, it’s exploding. Friedman’s advice was right on — my bet has paid off. Now, it is time for all of […]
Tina Peters, a former elections clerk in Colorado who was the first local official convicted over efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election, is set to leave prison Monday after Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) commuted her sentence. Peters is set to leave prison after spending less than a quarter of her nine-year sentence behind...
The U.S. military over the weekend struck radar and drone sites in Iran, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said late Sunday. “U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) conducted self-defense strikes on Iranian radar and command and control sites for drones in Goruk, Iran and Qeshm Island this weekend,” Centcom said in a post on the social platform X....
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) notified Senate Democrats on Monday that they will make a coordinated effort to eliminate the Trump administration’s $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization" fund, which Schumer called a “slush fund.” Schumer said he will force Republicans to vote to kill the fund, regardless of how Republicans attempt to prevent the issue from...
