A former Miami congressman and longtime friend of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on Venezuela's behalf during the first Trump administration.
Aaron Siever was never a single-party voter. But now, the 41-year-old from southwest Virginia is more frustrated than ever with the two political parties whose chief accomplishment, he says, is blaming each other for getting little done.
Growing up in Guntur, India, structural inequality was not an abstraction — it was the street I grew up on. For centuries, the caste system fixed entire communities into place at birth, and the doors that mattered — schools, government jobs, land — opened or closed accordingly. India’s fix was Reservations, an affirmative action system […]
“Some people did something.” That was Rep. Ilan Omar’s (D-MN) description of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, in New York, at the Pentagon, and in western Pennsylvania. The approach taken by one of America’s biggest public school systems is similar. Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the terrorist murders of nearly 3,000 people on […]
Abraham Lincoln once observed that we all declare for liberty, but in using the same word, we do not all mean the same thing. The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, he said, and the sheep thanks him as a liberator while the wolf denounces him as a destroyer of liberty. Words matter. […]
In early September, a 27-year-old researcher quit Anthropic and posted a seven-part warning on X. The big AI labs, he wrote, were “racing straight to self improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” The thread drew more than 100 million views in about a day. Within the week, Anthropic’s chief executive called for slowing the […]
Energy Secretary Chris Wright has a “dream”: to use natural gas to save the lives of millions of the world’s poorest. “[T]he biggest challenge [is] 2 billion people on the planet cook their daily meals and warm their houses the same way all our ancestors did, burning wood, dung, and agricultural waste indoors,” causing “2 […]
Clip and save this op-ed, because I may be the only person in the free world predicting that in the midterm elections next month, the Republicans are going to win and win big. They’re going to hold both the House and the Senate, and they’ll even increase their margins in both chambers. Here’s why. Americans […]
Nine hundred dollars a child. That was the going rate, according to federal prosecutors, for carrying a child across the bridge from Juárez into El Paso. Some of those children were 5 years old. Some were given marijuana gummies before the trip so they’d be too groggy to answer questions at the port. One of […]
President Donald Trump and his economic team, led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, are delivering a solid economic performance so far in 2026: Real GDP growth rate of 2.5% and 2.2% per annum in the first and second quarters, respectively; core inflation rate (excluding food and energy) of 3.9% and 3.3% per annum, respectively; and […]
The U.S.-China summit has come and gone, and artificial intelligence was a key topic of discussion. There were reportedly no major breakthroughs, but diplomacy takes time. It also takes willpower and commitment, especially with complicated, critically important topics such as highly advanced AI. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to meet […]
The Democratic Socialists of America has imagined a future in which the bills disappear. “You don’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord,” its 2026 program declares. Its housing agenda calls for publicly owned construction, tighter regulation of investment properties, and universal rent control. For people struggling to afford an apartment, that is an attractive […]
Higher education today is reeling from multiple crises. From the incursion of artificial intelligence into the classroom, to the crackdown on research funding by the Trump administration, the skyrocketing cost of college, and the decline in trust from the American public, it is hard to know what university leaders can do to restore their institutions […]
