In an era when content creators say increasingly outrageous things to stand out from the crowd and politicians must reach potential voters wherever they are, how far is too far? This past October, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts ignited a wave of resignations at the storied conservative think tank after posting a video defending Tucker […]
“Exposure to infants in the social environment,” economists Sebastian Galiani and Raul Sosa write in a recent paper, “activates neurobiological mechanisms that increase the desire for parenthood.” That is, babies are contagious. We’ve long known that. As a culture of rational sophisticates, we try to laugh off “baby fever” as an old wives’ tale. As […]
The United Nations General Assembly, led by Ghana, recently passed a resolution by a 123-3 vote declaring that the “transatlantic” slave trade was the “gravest crime” ever committed against humanity. The resolution demands “reparatory justice” for “Africans and people of African descent” due to its “scale, duration, systemic nature, and brutality.” Why focus just on the transatlantic […]
Many American progressives of different faiths, or no faith, celebrated the message delivered by Pope Leo XIV at St. Peter’s Basilica for the April 11 Prayer Vigil for Peace that, in other circumstances, they might have balked at. “Thoughts and prayers,” is shorthand for a kind of consolation after gun-related tragedies in the United States […]
The world is not short on bad news. Gas prices remain stubbornly elevated. Congress has lurched from one standoff to the next, the SAVE America Act is still grinding through the Senate, and a partial Department of Homeland Security shutdown is dragging into its fourth month. Overseas wars grind on. Americans looking for something to […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Wednesday said Israel should kill Iran’s newly appointed supreme leader. Mojtaba Khamenei was named to lead Iran on Monday after his father, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes. “Well, they should kill him, too…hopefully he is significantly wounded. And if he does recover, you know, I...
Millions of Iranians have been at least temporarily displaced amid the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on the country, according to a new estimate from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). The UNHCR said Thursday that 3.2 million people in the country have been forced to leave their homes because of the ongoing military operations. This number...
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), a Democratic titan of the House, announced Thursday that he will seek reelection this year for an 18th term, ending the speculation that he was ready to retire at the end of this Congress. Speaking to reporters in South Carolina, Clyburn, 85, said he will file the paperwork to run again...
Republicans need to show that their immigration enforcement measures are not motivated by animosity toward immigrants. A bill to update the registry provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) would be a good first step.
Retired Army Brig. Gen. Steve Anderson said Wednesday that President Trump would be “smart” to "declare victory" in the conflict against Iran and “go home.” “Well, this war will end whenever Donald Trump says it's going to end, whenever he decides to declare victory. And if he was smart, he'd declare victory today and go...
Crude oil prices eased slightly on Thursday morning after briefly climbing above $100 overnight, as Iran moves to strengthen its hold over the Strait of Hormuz in an attempt to ramp up economic pain amid the ongoing war. Brent crude oil, the international benchmark, was trading about 4.7 percent higher at about $98 per barrel...
The Trump administration has systematically dismantled Iran's conventional military and nuclear ambitions, but the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij remain intact, posing a direct threat to the Iranian people and standing in the way of regime change.
The GOP is pushing to pass one more major piece of legislation before the November midterm elections, while the Senate is expected to pass a bipartisan housing bill and gas prices are expected to remain high due to the Iran conflict.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s (R-Okla.) pending departure from the upper chamber to lead the Department of Homeland Security is creating a vacancy that Republicans wonder if they’ll be able to fill: Unofficial liaison to the House. It’s an informal role, and one that didn’t truly exist prior to Mullin arriving. But the Oklahoma Republican has been...
Parents and educators are navigating difficult conversations about the war with Iran as students of all ages see disturbing news and images online from the conflict. From the deaths of U.S. service members to a strike on an Iranian school killing more than 150 people, the horrors of war are getting harder to avoid for children. Experts warn it is a...
