For too many Washington bureaucrats, American border security is reduced to a narrow, checklist exercise — counting crossings and manning checkpoints while ignoring the torrent of illicit goods and other poisons flooding our communities. But during my time at the Department of Homeland Security, I saw a fundamental shift: Border Patrol was no longer operating […]
MONONGAHELA, Pennsylvania — Downballot primary results for seats in the Pennsylvania legislature and Congress had both parties heading into very different directions for November’s midterm election cycle. The Democrats are marching far left, and Republicans are beating back challengers from their far-right flanks. In Washington County, in a strident race, Republican state Sen. Camera Bartolotta […]
On May 6, Georgetown University Law Center announced that former Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro, its 2026 commencement speaker, had withdrawn from the ceremony. His apparent offense: writing opinion essays defending Israel and criticizing higher education’s response to the Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. After a student petition labeled his views “controversial, Zionist, […]
“Has China defeated our country?” chirped right-wing activist Mike Cernovich when reposting a clip of President Donald Trump speaking to Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Friday. The Make America Great Again movement, committed to confronting China, not Russia, was not impressed by the recent summit in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jinping, whom it sees […]
Former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander (D) is leading incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) in the Democratic primary for New York’s 10th District by more than 20 points, according to a new survey. In the Emerson College Polling/PIX 11 poll, 56.6 percent said they would back Lander while 23.1 percent said they support Goldman...
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is meeting with Senate Republicans on Thursday to explain how the Trump administration’s compensation fund for victims of Justice Department "weaponization" will work. Blanche is on Capitol Hill to talk to skeptical lawmakers about why the fund is needed and how it would be administered. His visit comes amid growing...
More than half of likely Democratic voters in a new survey said the party’s next presidential candidate should reposition the party ideologically along more moderate lines. The New York Times/Sienna poll released Wednesday found that 52 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning respondents believe the party’s 2028 presidential nominee must move the party back to the...
