Five months ago, Russia was willing to give land back. Now it is not. Nothing happened at any negotiating table in between. The front line moved, and the price moved with it. In late February, Bloomberg reported that Moscow was prepared to sign a framework in which it would withdraw from occupied slivers of the […]
Last week, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said his administration had reviewed whether New York City could execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He concluded that the city does not have the legal authority to do so, called on the federal government to execute the warrant instead, and […]
In October 2013, I commanded Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, on a route-clearance mission in Zabul Province, Afghanistan. The route ran 60 miles. It took nearly 10 days because the Taliban had seeded the road with hundreds of victim-operated bombs and laid ambushes along its length. We found and destroyed nearly 50 of […]
In 1992, Congress created what’s commonly known as the 340B program in order to help safety-net hospitals and clinics stretch limited resources to serve low-income and uninsured patients. By requiring pharmaceutical manufacturers to sell prescription drugs at steep discounts to qualifying hospitals and clinics, the logic went, the 340B program aimed to keep medications accessible […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) has imposed America’s first statewide moratorium on new large data centers. Democrats in Congress are now calling for Washington to follow her lead, including demands for a national pause on new artificial intelligence infrastructure. Their position is crystallizing: when data centers create political controversy, do not produce more electricity, modernize the […]
There are few more dangerous places in the world for Christians than Nigeria. The assault on Christian communities in Nigeria is among the most serious and persistent religious freedom crises of our day. Over the past few years, up to 100,000 Christians are believed to have been killed and thousands of churches destroyed. A consistent […]
The Trump administration has made rooting out fraud a top priority. The White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud is waging, in their words, “an unrelenting, full-scale assault on the fraudsters, scammers, and corrupt operators who have looted billions from American taxpayers.” They’re halting hundreds of millions in Medicaid payments to Minnesota, blocking $1.3 billion […]
The future of Russia’s war against Ukraine no longer depends solely on what happens along the front line. It depends just as much on whether Europe continues to believe that Ukraine can prevail. Today, two very different scenarios are taking shape. The optimistic one is increasingly visible. Russia’s economy is slowing under the pressure of […]
Brazil dismisses Hezbollah as a Lebanese problem with little bearing on it. That fiction puts Americans at risk. The Lebanese Shiite terrorist group maintains an active presence in at least a dozen Latin American countries, and Brazil is one of its main nodes. Security analysts estimate that the Tri-Border Area, joining Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, […]
The terrorist murder and maiming of people at a Berlin Pride festival on Saturday should not be seen as separate from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani‘s empty condemnation of a man who stabbed two people in Manhattan shortly before that while shouting “Allahu akbar” and “Justice for Islam.” It is also inextricably connected to […]
