President Trump said Tuesday he will appoint William J. Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to serve as acting Director of National Intelligence after the departure of Tulsi Gabbard.
The founders built a structural limit on federal taxing power, a restriction the Progressive Era removed. The government that followed was not a coincidence. The 16th Amendment, ratified Feb. 3, 1913, gave Congress the power to tax income “from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states.” Those 23 words eliminated the constitutional constraint […]
Spokesmen at the National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System are forever asking people to donate money to support themselves and their programs. “Viewers just like you” do so, we are told, and we are exhorted to follow in their footsteps. What are we who love our country to say about such goings on? […]
The First Amendment doesn’t protect what most people think it protects. The Founding Fathers wrote it to defend a specific thing: political speech directed at government. Not offensive art. Not commercial advertising. Not the content moderation disputes on a social media platform. Two centuries of doctrinal expansion have broadened the amendment’s formal coverage considerably and, […]
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 2, 1776 As it is Sunday, Congress does not […]
Washington has long pretended that Lebanon is a sovereign state. Beaufort Castle just proved otherwise. On May 31, 2026, the Israeli military captured Beaufort Castle and the surrounding ridge in southern Lebanon. The operation marked Israel’s deepest ground advance since the 2000 withdrawal from the security zone and followed a wave of repeated Hezbollah rocket […]
Hardworking Americans are feeling the strain of rising costs and mounting trade pressures on the tools they rely on every day. One essential piece of equipment, however, is too often overlooked: off-road utility vehicles, which power critical work across agriculture, energy production, emergency response, and more. Growing up on my family’s farm in Idaho, I […]
There are plenty of reasons to hate the social media companies. They erode our privacy, manipulate us through algorithms, and have fundamentally altered the norms governing human social interaction. Yet, one thing social media is probably not doing is making children and teenagers more anxious, depressed, or suicidal. Despite all the recent saber-rattling and attempts […]
A New York City nonprofit organization representing grocers is fighting back against Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-owned grocery store initiative. Frank Garcia, the chairman of the Multicultural Business Coalition, told Spectrum News1 that the organization is considering a lawsuit to stop Mamdani outside of City Hall on May 29. Inside, Garcia attended a hearing with Jeanny […]
The Supreme Court will soon decide a case that could upend the balance built into a bipartisan law that has accelerated the launch of generic drugs and saved American patients, employers, and taxpayers trillions of dollars in recent decades — while still incentivizing biopharmaceutical companies to research and develop medicines in the first place. The […]
Recently, U.S. Forces Korea Commander Gen. Xavier Brunson sparked a diplomatic row after describing South Korea as “the dagger in the heart of Asia” from China’s perspective. The Chinese Embassy in Seoul strongly criticized the remarks, stating they “crossed the line” and exhibited unnecessary belligerence. Later, also challenged by a Chinese delegate at the Shangri-La […]
