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 […]
As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, Americans are holding two seemingly contradictory ideas at once. Gallup reported in June that 78% of Americans still believe the American dream is worth striving for, and 69% believe they personally will achieve it. Yet an AP-NORC poll found that only 34% say the traditional proposition that […]
Russia’s war in Ukraine accomplished something no American strategy could have engineered on its own: It hollowed out Moscow’s grip on its former empire. The White House noticed and moved. Congress still has not. The Trump administration has moved at a remarkable pace. In August 2025, Washington displaced Moscow as broker of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, […]
When American Eagle released its “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” campaign last year, I found the outrage ridiculous. I like seeing a beautiful woman unapologetically presented as beautiful. I like even more that Sweeney refused to participate in the familiar ritual in which somebody commits an imaginary cultural offense and is then expected to crawl […]
Gubernatorial candidates across the country are racing to stake out positions on AI as the battle over regulating the technology intensifies.They’re watching as sitting...
1994—D.C. Circuit chief judge Abner J. Mikva resigns from the court in order to pursue what for him might be a less political position—White House Counsel...
What does Democratic Party homeless policy look like? Having to fight a legal battle to remove a massive homeless encampment riddled with diseases because the homeless people have a union. Such is the story of the left-wing cesspool of a city that is Berkeley, the cutting edge of progressivism in progressive California. The city has […]
Six years ago this month, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain signed the Abraham Accords on the White House lawn, later followed by Morocco and Sudan. The deal broke the Arab League’s decadeslong policy, in place since 1967, of “no peace, no negotiation, no recognition” with Israel, proving that governments could choose acceptance over […]
