This mayor organized Gwanghwamun Square watch parties, where he led cheers for a team whose early crash-out has prompted a political crisis. That's Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon at a...
'1619 Project' creator Nikole Hannah-Jones said paying reparations for slavery would amount to admitting that "the entire existence of the United States" is a crime.
A few years before World War I, the man who I am named for left a remote corner of the sprawling Russian Empire and hopped a steamship across the Atlantic Ocean. It’s lost in family lore and century-old records whether my great-grandfather left Eastern Europe as Alexander Zhdanov, Alexander Zhdanowski, or something else entirely. Yet […]
America’s educational system has clearly failed, judging by the recent comments of 29-year-old lawyer Melat Kiros, who just won a Democratic primary in Colorado...
Critics insist the Trump administration has bungled its response to the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela because of the lack of USAID. But those critics...
The Supreme Court ruled to protect the Fourteenth Amendment clause that gives unrestricted citizenship to virtually all individuals born on American soil. But there...
The 250th anniversary of America’s founding provides an opportunity to reflect on its meaning. For the first time in history, a country was founded on the idea that humans possess inalienable rights and that the purpose of government is to protect those rights. Prior to then, nations had been created through conquest and the growth […]
Several years ago, I flew across the Atlantic Ocean and across countless smaller cities, towns, rivers, and lakes. I came to America to study and to become a scientist. It was a dream come true. All the ingrained formulas and calculations shone with new intensity in my mind’s eye, yet the rest of my new […]
America at 250 is more than a birthday. It is a ledger; a chain of blood, sweat, faith, courage, and generations of Americans choosing the harder right over the easier wrong. Most experiments in self-government fail. They collapse under the weight of corruption, division, debt, invasion, or the rot of people forgetting what freedom requires. […]
In the summer of 1776, with the ink barely dry on the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress gave its founders a challenging assignment: design a seal for the nation they had just summoned into being. Benjamin Franklin imagined Moses standing at the Red Sea, his hand raised as the waters swallowed Pharaoh’s army. Thomas […]
As America celebrates its 250th birthday, we should reflect on the eternal wisdom of the Founding Fathers, who put words to action on principles that have bound our nation since 1776. Looking back, we think of the non-military parts of independence as relatively easy — a room of guys in Philadelphia (“brotherly love”) who were […]
