The race to dominate artificial intelligence is no longer just about algorithms, it is about energy. Let’s be frank — compute is power, and power is now the decisive constraint. In that equation, Norway, Finland, and the Nordics writ large are quietly positioning themselves as one of the most strategically important countries in the global […]
President Donald Trump is the best leader of the United States that Israel has ever had. He vastly outstrips Former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who smiled while they worked a knife into the back of the Jewish state. Dwight D. Eisenhower was even worse, far worse. He bullied the Israeli military into returning […]
We are now in June, which is the start of an often-newsworthy period: hurricane season. Recently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its annual start-of-season forecast. This year, forecasters predict a below-normal Atlantic hurricane season, with one to three major hurricanes and up to 14 named storms in total. That does not mean you […]
On June 1, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev posted a framed order President Donald Trump gave him waiving Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act. Essentially, Trump’s waiver allows Azerbaijan to purchase American weaponry. In 1992, Congress passed the Freedom Support Act to help the newly independent states that emerged from the Soviet Union’s collapse build […]
Earlier this month, the Trump administration gave America some excellent news. It lowered tariffs from 25% to 15% on some aluminum, steel, and copper, plus products made from them. The proclamation cited the importance of these goods to national security and American manufacturing. This move deserves praise because, as we’ve seen, tariffs raise costs by […]
For more than a decade, American businesses have been calling on Congress to pick a lane on data privacy: a clear, national framework. Congress failed to pass a workable approach, so states stepped in, and most have taken a constructive approach. But right now, nearly half of Americans still have no comprehensive privacy protections, and […]
President Donald Trump has made a mess of what was one of his strongest policies in winning the presidential election in 2024. Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s SWAT team approach to deportation created mass disturbances and protests that resulted in deadly violence. Trump’s approval on the issue has collapsed, along with Hispanic voting support. […]
George Washington is lauded as a war hero, founding father, and inspiring exemplar. But before that, he was a vain, temperamental, inexperienced, headstrong young man whose blunders cost lives. What can we learn from young Washington? Of course, America’s first president adorns U.S. currency. The nation’s capital and a state bear his name. His strategic […]
The mad and bad Roman emperor, Caligula, made his horse a senator. So the scope for mad and bad political choices is wide. After winning the Democratic primary in Maine on Tuesday, essentially unopposed, Graham Platner is feeling his oats. And he might gallop all the way to the U.S. Senate in November, despite being […]
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve has proven its worth as a hedge against the energy shocks of conflicts like the wars in Ukraine and Iran. But what if the United States were sitting on another energy reserve that has been quietly accumulating for decades and that Washington has persistently mismanaged? The roughly 95,000 metric tons of […]
The annual inflation rate increased to its highest point in three years as the cost of energy and other goods rose due to the Iran war, according to data released by the Department of Labor on Wednesday. The consumer price index (CPI), a popular gauge of inflation, rose 4.2 percent over the past 12 months...
President Trump on Wednesday said Iran "will have to pay the price" for stalled peace negotiations and after the U.S. launched renewed strikes against Iran after a U.S. helicopter was shot down and Tehran retaliated. "Iran’s Military is a complete and total mess," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Much of it, like their Navy and...
