Speaking at a Palm Beach forum, Trump appeared to joke the U.S. would be “taking over" Cuba “almost immediately" and that he'll "finish a job" in Iran first.
“There were a hundred years of racial segregation after the Emancipation,” observes Joe Klein at Sanity Clause, until the “right to vote was established.”
With states legalizing weed, we need to require a nationally standardized warning label about its risks, just as cigarette packs include a dire warning...
MAYSVILLE, Kentucky — Kentuckians have always had a soft spot for punching back at the powers that be. Some of that spirit came from the Pennsylvanian farmers and distillers who migrated here in 1791 to escape federal excise taxes and government overreach on their whiskey production. Kentucky was considered the District of Kentucky or part […]
In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. New York magazine recently published an overwrought essay penned by […]
On a train crossing from the Polish border into Ukraine, Hasidic pilgrims fill the carriages: men in black coats and wide-brimmed hats. Thirty thousand to 40,000 Hasidic Jews converge each Rosh Hashanah in Uman, undeterred by air raid sirens, to pray at the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. But all is not well in […]
The University of California at Los Angeles got caught threatening to punish conservative students after its event was disrupted by liberal agitators. UCLA has since walked that threat back, but it is proof that universities will not let their woke politics die easily. The UCLA Federalist Society chapter held an event with Department of Homeland […]
President Donald Trump is currently considering a bailout or partial nationalization of the floundering budget airline Spirit Airlines. The president’s instinct to intervene is the same instinct that led Spirit down the path that resulted in two bankruptcies in 2024 and 2025. In 2023, President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice sued to block the proposed […]