With the burial of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, contemporary political discourse will inevitably focus on his geopolitical maneuvering, Iran’s nuclear trajectory, and prolonged confrontation with Western powers. However, an analysis restricted to statecraft overlooks the defining characteristic of his tenure: the systematic institutionalization of state-sanctioned violence. Khamenei’s legacy is fundamentally defined by the creation of an […]
It’s now readily demonstrable that Anthropic’s political advocacy and advertising have caused substantial harm to America’s position in the global AI race. There has long been an understanding that, for America to lead the world in this entirely new domain, a critical imperative is to keep the government from suffocating this technology with regulations before […]
Justice Elena Kagan should recuse herself from Suncor Energy v. Boulder County. Not because a lower court told her to. Not because an ethics board ruled against her. Because the oldest test in the profession says so: would a reasonable, informed observer question her impartiality? Here, the answer isn’t close. I spend a good part […]
The American Anthropological Association is outraged. A little known but illuminating report on the state of scholarship in the humanities and humanistic social sciences, commissioned by the chancellors of Vanderbilt University and Washington University in St. Louis, warns that “every field” the authors studied shows “a deterioration in scholarly standards fueled by the substitution of […]
On July 10, Turkey signed a memorandum of understanding with the illegal administration of Northern Cyprus for a 97-kilometer bidirectional submarine gas pipeline. The project will run from Turkey’s southern coast near Alanya to the Teknecik power station outside Kyrenia. Two parallel 22-inch lines will initially carry natural gas from Turkey to power plants in […]
Squatters have taken over a dead University of California, Berkeley, professor’s home, and the state is making it impossible for his family to kick them out. Thanks to the Golden State’s policy of legalized property theft, Przemyslaw Jeziorski’s family is fighting a losing battle in the courts. Jeziorski, who was murdered last year, used to […]
Over the course of the last few days, the world’s eyes have been fixed on the Strait of Hormuz. The United States has declared it open for business, while recent reports indicate Iran has instructed its Houthi allies to intervene if U.S. strikes hit Iran’s infrastructure. Iran’s concerns that it may be further weakened by […]
Americans expect taxpayer money to be spent responsibly, transparently, and in the public interest. It does not belong to politicians. It does not belong to unelected bureaucrats. And it certainly does not belong to politically connected insiders looking to live lavishly on the taxpayer’s dime. When I worked as an intelligence officer for the Department […]
The Navy’s top civilian official is brushing off criticisms over an unusually low Blue Angels flyover at Florida’s Pensacola Beach this week, saying there will be no punishments for the incident. Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao said the service completed a flight debrief of the Wednesday flyover that sent tents and umbrellas flying during the annual “Breakfast...
President Trump is hoping last night's primetime address on election fraud will boost support for the SAVE America Act, which would require voters to show ID before casting their ballots. But the legislation goes much further, raising concerns among even some Republicans about whether it can pass. Join The Hill’s senior vice president of editorial...
[Watch Whole Hog Politics live: Join us today at 9 a.m. ET at TheHill.com as Chris Stirewalt and host Bill Sammon break down this week’s political news and answer questions from a live online audience.] It isn't that Republicans couldn't pass a single major piece of immigration legislation in the 18 months that their party...
A month ago, the UAW endorsed progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed in the Democratic primary for Michigan's open Senate seat. It seems an odd anti-establishment move for a long-time Democrat ally and pal of former President Biden — one that could backfire with the union’s rank and file.
China denied President Trump’s accusation that it interfered with the 2020 presidential election, calling the claim “entirely fabricated” and “groundless” while insisting it never had any interest in meddling with U.S. elections. Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian responded to Trump’s Thursday primetime address, when the president accused...
