A Trump Homeland Security policy allowing ICE more freedom to make warrantless arrests at houses of worship tramples on the religious rights of migrants, churches, temples and mosques, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
President Trump said Tuesday there are no active or planned talks with Iran and his naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz will remain in "full force."
In the age of “everyone gets a trophy,” American higher education just fractured another vertebra in the backbone of America. The University of Michigan announced that it will start “covering” grades in the first semester of incoming freshmen in the Literature, Science and Arts programs. This will give students a pass (P) or a no […]
The federal healthcare ecosystem was just sent into a tailspin by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In its landmark August 2026 ruling for Texas Medical Association v. HHS, the full 17-judge panel struck down the federal government’s formula for how health insurers calculate out-of-network payment benchmarks. The court explicitly found that commercial carriers […]
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) stood in Atlanta this weekend and did something calculated. He didn’t accuse President Donald Trump of an affair. He didn’t have to. He said the president would rather “build his ballroom and travel with Natalie” than do his job, let the room fill in the rest, and walked off. Within hours, […]
The United States has a planet-sized PR problem that appears not just inexplicable but completely bizarre. A shocking study from Pew Research has found that China is now viewed more positively than America in nearly 30 of the 36 countries surveyed — including longtime allies such as the United Kingdom. Obviously, countries such as France […]
President Donald Trump is to be congratulated on extending the waiver of the century-old Jones Act, which enables more oil to be shipped from the Gulf Coast to California and to the Northeast, reducing prices to American families. The first waiver was granted for 60 days on March 17, then extended an additional 90 days […]
Before Argentina’s 2001 financial collapse, its provinces embraced a dangerous habit: spending locally and sending the bill to the national government. The U.S. Medicaid program turbocharged similar fiscal free-riding during the Biden administration. Using provider taxes and state-directed payments, states maximized their draw from the national treasury while federal taxpayers bore the burden. States first […]
We are less than three months from the midterm elections, and for all the billions of dollars that will be spent convincing Americans otherwise, the choice facing voters is remarkably straightforward. Do Americans want government guided by common sense? Or by crazy, woke ideas that have endlessly proven to make our lives worse? If they […]
Rom Braslavski was working security at the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, when Palestinian terrorists overran it and abducted him to Gaza. Held for nearly two years by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Braslavski was shown in captivity skeletal and weeping. After his October 2025 release, he described regular beatings and said he had been […]
As a former member of Congress and a lawyer who spent years watching how our legal system actually works, I am deeply troubled by a quiet but corrosive practice that has grown into a multibillion-dollar industry: third-party litigation funding. Outside investors and activist organizations put up the money for lawsuits in exchange for a cut […]
On Feb. 12, 2025, a reporter in the Oval Office asked President Donald Trump about Ukraine’s terms. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wanted security assurances, she said — then corrected herself: If the war ended, he wanted guarantees. Two words. Two consecutive sentences. Used as if they meant the same thing. The president said, “We’ll see […]
The Mecca Agreement and regional pipeline bypasses confirm that Middle Eastern self-reliance, as a multinational region, is no longer theoretical. Three months ago, I discussed the transitions underway across the Middle East amid the Iran war. With continual delays and memorandums, it looked as though Iran was running the show. That reading missed what was […]
Thirty-eight years after Iran’s mass execution of political prisoners, the gallows are still being used for the same political purpose: to intimidate a population that challenges the Islamic Republic. On Sunday, Iran executed Shahram Sadeghi in Karaj. He had been convicted of deliberately driving into police officers during the January 2026 anti-government protests. Iran’s judiciary […]
For decades, Washington accepted the idea that American manufacturing jobs were simply the price of globalization. Communities watched factories close, supply chains move overseas, and good-paying jobs disappear, while policymakers insisted that free trade alone would eventually make everyone better off. President Donald Trump rejected that consensus, and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement has shown why […]
President Donald Trump’s decision to curtail the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises exposes a foundational pathology within the U.S.-South Korea alliance. For decades, Washington has tolerated a dangerous asymmetry: Seoul expects the protection of 28,500 American troops, continuous joint training, and billions in U.S. taxpayer subsidies, yet blinks at broader global threats. When Washington requested South […]
