Opinion

At the end of the first week of the 60-day ceasefire enacted by the memorandum of understanding, the Trump administration has gained some wins and taken some losses while continuing to negotiate with the Iranian delegation. Both Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio play important, though different, roles in the process. […]

Four years ago this month, our nation took a historic step when the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned the so-called “right” to end a baby’s life in the United States and returned the authority to regulate abortion to the people. Since then, the abortion industry has intensified its efforts to convince women that pregnancy is […]

AVERY COUNTY, N.C.—If there is such a thing as the classic Appalachian success story, the rise in popularity of the outside-the-box band Cigarettes at Sunset would be that story.  But nothing comes easy in Appalachia. The five-member band—which includes Garrett Dellinger, Ryland Bagbey, Sarah Vann, Wells Whitman, and Ethan Moore—was born in the winter of […]

Some members of the Democratic Party establishment are bemoaning that the party is being taken over by people who hate it. They have no one to blame but themselves. Jaime Harrison, who was the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2021 to 2025, is one of those establishment figures lamenting that Democrat-hating socialist candidates […]

Speaking on Fox News recently, Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) delivered a scathing assessment of the Iranian regime and an implicit call for a return to military action. The senator’s words have earned him plaudits from opponents to President Donald Trump’s diplomacy with Tehran. Iran hawks such as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) and Sen. Lindsey Graham […]

Some arguments that led to the redefinition of marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015 seemed to be common-sense, practical arguments. Supporters argued that legal recognition of marriage by same-sex couples would provide greater stability for same-sex couples, encourage marriage over cohabitation, and improve the well-being of sexual minorities. Many Americans found those arguments persuasive, even some of those […]

June was a fateful time in America 250 years ago. The 13 colonies, still part of the British Empire, had been in rebellion for over a year, ever since fighting had erupted in Massachusetts at Lexington and Concord. Gen. George Washington and the Continental Army had recently forced British troops out of the colonies, but […]

Jeffery Lee murdered two people during a pawnshop robbery in Orrville, Alabama, in 1998. He was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death — though the jury voted 7-5 for life, and the judge overrode it under a practice Alabama subsequently abolished. Twenty-six years later, he is still alive — not because the courts […]

The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. June 24, 1776 Everything is moving at the speed of […]

Raphael Lemkin gave the modern world its most terrifying word: “genocide.” A Polish-Jewish lawyer who fled the Nazis, he spent his life forcing governments to recognize that the deliberate destruction of a people was a unique crime — not just “war” or “atrocity,” but something worse. He helped drive the 1948 Genocide Convention, and he […]

The Trump administration is considering a pilot program that could bring much-needed transparency to the 340B drug discount program, created by Congress to help hospitals and clinics serving low-income patients provide medications at discounted rates. Under the 340B program, drug manufacturers provide medicines at steep discounts, which providers are supposed to pass on to vulnerable […]