A federal judge in Rhode Island handed property owners a rare and useful win last week, and the reasoning behind it deserves more attention than the case has gotten. In SCLS Realty, LLC v. Town of Johnston, Judge Melissa R. DuBose ruled that Johnston’s seizure of a 31-acre parcel off George Waterman Road was void […]
The Trump administration is once again negotiating over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said Saturday that an agreement with Oman is close, but that the deal alone would not reopen the waterway. Washington has said it would lift its blockade of Iranian ports if commercial shipping resumes. The diplomacy captures the central problem of the […]
Russia has learned that influence can often achieve what occupation no longer can afford to. The Trump administration must be on notice. For centuries, geopolitical success meant armies crossing borders and imposing control by force. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shows that model still works — but it also shows how expensive it has become. Occupation […]
Abdul el Sayed just won the most expensive Senate primary in American history, beating Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) by a single point, surviving roughly $65 million in outside spending. He is now the first Muslim American to win a major political party’s Senate nomination, and stands a few months away from becoming the first Muslim […]
Optimism about reaching a diplomatic solution to the Iran crisis is premature. No deal between Iran and Oman has been formally announced, but what we know is not promising. Indeed, allowing the Strait of Hormuz littoral states alone to conduct the negotiations is a fundamental challenge to freedom of the seas, a foundation of U.S. foreign […]
Israel is quietly executing a masterclass in geopolitical realism, while Western diplomats indulge in hand-wringing and empty rhetoric. Advanced Israeli weapon sales to Latin America are not simply commercial side deals. Today, Jerusalem’s defense exports function as a practical instrument for securing a hemisphere under growing pressure from a hostile revisionist axis. That pressure is […]
The Senate finished its session early Saturday morning after a long series of votes in which it confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general and funded the government through the beginning of December. But it did not pass the voting security legislation prized by President Trump, as Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) warned. Join the live...
Taylor Farms is recalling prepared salsa and guacamole over a risk of salmonella. A Sunday announcement on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website states that the agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local officials are looking into a salmonella outbreak in several states connected “to fresh jalapeños supplied by Coast...
Jay Feeley says he always toyed with the idea of entering politics during a more than decade-long career as a placekicker in the NFL and a subsequent stint in the CBS broadcast booth. The pro athlete and media personality had occasionally been outspoken on political issues, made semi-regular cable news appearances and served on the NFL player association’s executive committee. But he said it was when President Trump was wounded in an assassination attempt during a...
President Trump said in a new interview he is “low-keying it” when it comes to the war with Iran as it nears its sixth month "We are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money,” Trump told Axios on Sunday. The president also...
