As the world gets more complicated, the solutions don’t have to be. Affordable, American-made drones are the answer to a rapidly changing and complex battlefield. The War Department is right to treat drone dominance as the future of combat. As America’s adversaries develop new, cheap weaponry, the United States must have an industrial base ready […]
The United States finds itself in a new Cold War with an even more dangerous adversary: communist China. But Washington is woefully unprepared to counter Beijing. On Sept. 22, the China Aerospace Studies Institute announced that the Air Force had decided to shut down the organization. The institute will continue to publish reports already in […]
Fifty years ago — on Sept. 30, 1976 — Congress first enacted an amendment offered by the late, great Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois to prohibit federal Medicaid funds from being used to subsidize the killing of unborn children by abortion. During debate in the House, Henry said: “An innocent, defenseless human life, in a […]
The Biden administration ran an unhedged book for four years. The results were higher rents, suppressed wages at the low end of the distribution, school systems absorbing students they hadn’t budgeted for, emergency rooms eating uncompensated care.
Education bureaucrats across the nation are burying evidence of a widespread and unpleasant truth: Public high schools are churning out barely literate, almost innumerate graduates.
JB Pritzker is looking different these days. Illinois's Democratic governor, who is considering a 2028 run for president, admitted as much when he acknowledged he lost 80 pounds after using a GLP-1 in the last two years to help treat his diabetes. Pritzker’s weight loss journey has been so apparent in recent months that the governor felt the...
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) is facing accusations he tried to launch a conspiracy tying former special counsel Jack Smith to others who prosecuted President Trump — a line of questioning that unwound when the senator apparently confused two basketball teams. Schmitt seemed poised for a gotcha moment with Smith when he asked him if he...
The Supreme Court’s new term is about to kick off next week. Join Legal Affairs Editor Zach Schonfeld and Legal Affairs Reporter Sophie Brams as they preview the big cases that they have their eyes on and the disputes bubbling up from the lower courts that the justices still may take up. It’s all on "The Gavel,"...
Republicans in both chambers are increasingly breaking ranks with President Trump across a host of sensitive issues, hoping some separation from the GOP’s unpopular standard bearer will help avert a blue wave in the midterm elections. The divisions are highly unusual for a party that’s walked virtually in lock-step with Trump for more than a...
The Trump administration has refused to spend billions of dollars that Congress appropriated for health programs, putting them at risk of expiring on Wednesday when the fiscal year ends. Such a move, which Democratic and even some Republican lawmakers say is illegal, poses a significant test of Congress's willingness to stand up to the Trump...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is becoming one of President Trump’s fiercest allies on AI at a critical juncture for the industry. In the face of mounting concerns over the future of AI, Huang is one of the few tech executives standing fully behind the president’s push to continue full steam ahead on AI, while others...
Former elected officials are increasingly filling the role of college president, especially in red states where dissatisfaction with higher education is high. While conservatives want to see these leaders shake up a system they see as biased against them, they also hope hiring a former senator or governor offers better connections with state legislators, potentially...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is seeking to throw a political lifeline to embattled Republican incumbent Sens. Jon Husted (Ohio), Pete Ricketts (Neb.) and Dan Sullivan (Alaska) by scheduling votes Wednesday on two bills that would address the growth of AI-driven data centers and stock trading by members of Congress. All three GOP senators...
