The Washington Examiner recently published an argument against Christians playing “crusader” in Dearborn, Michigan. Good. Modern American Muslims are not seventh-century armies, and political argument becomes diseased when ancestry is treated like perpetual criminal liability. But the mirror-image mistake matters too: Defending modern Muslims does not require us to sanitize medieval Muslim conquest. When Arab-Muslim […]
The regime in Tehran is reeling under a collapsing economy, public anger, systemic corruption, and its inability to resolve Iran’s multiplying crises. International attention is therefore turning toward the decisive internal factor: the Iranian people and organized resistance. Decades of Western engagement failed to moderate the regime, while the wars of 2025 and 2026 showed […]
As the saying goes, “To be forewarned is to be forearmed.” American companies doing business with the federal government have once again been forewarned about the risks of engaging in DEI practices. To ignore these warnings can be very costly for the company, its shareholders, and employees. Just four months ago, IBM paid more than […]
The world’s largest economy should not be governed by outdated assumptions about how fast it is capable of growing. Kevin Warsh used his Jackson Hole address to challenge the Federal Reserve to reconsider those limits and rethink its approach to monetary policy. Although much of the immediate attention focused on whether Warsh increased the likelihood […]
For too long, Washington has talked about the high cost of healthcare while tiptoeing around one of its biggest drivers: hospital prices. That is finally beginning to change, however, as both Congress and the Trump administration have been taking serious steps to bring transparency and accountability to America’s hospital industry, especially the nonprofit hospitals that […]
A lot has been written on Iran during the last six months except for one thing: its minorities. Apart from a statement by President Donald Trump during the initial stages of the conflict about arming the Iranian Kurds, the issue has attracted little attention. That omission matters. The rights of Iran’s minorities must be central […]
Pennsylvania’s health department announced last month that two Lancaster County residents — both unvaccinated — died from measles. They were reportedly the first times the disease has killed anyone in the United States in 2026, a year that has already produced more measles cases than the country has seen since the virus was declared eliminated […]
In the United States, Hezbollah is a ticking time bomb. Since Oct. 7, 2023, its flags have been spotted at protests around the country. Its logos are seen on T-shirts worn on campuses. Its officials have spoken directly to American students on Zoom. One of them even disclosed plans to “invest in the Western students” […]
In my financial services career, I have learned one rule that never bends: You pay claims to the beneficiaries named in the document, not to whoever shows up with a plausible story. A trustee who ignores that distinction loses a license, a client, and occasionally a freedom. Washington has run a piece of the tax […]
As America approaches the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, FBI Director Kash Patel has offered a timely reminder of what counterterrorism is supposed to do: stop violence before Americans are forced to mourn it. Speaking recently with law-enforcement partners in New York, Patel highlighted the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Forces — now more […]
A C-17 Globemaster left Joint Base Andrews on Aug. 25, routed by way of Riga, Latvia, and landed in Moscow. CIA Director John Ratcliffe was aboard and spent about eight hours there. The Kremlin says he did not meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. President Donald Trump called the trip semi-routine. What Ratcliffe carried there is […]
President Donald Trump has made clear that he wants to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un again, saying he hopes to arrange a meeting later this year. The two leaders held their first historic summit in Singapore in 2018, a second in Vietnam in 2019, and a brief meeting at the Demilitarized Zone later […]
On May 29, the lower house of Poland’s parliament voted 428-3 to honor the 250th anniversary of American independence. Nobody voted against. Watching from the gallery was Tom Rose, the U.S. ambassador who had spent the previous four months in an open, personal feud with the marshal who announced the result. Rules of professional diplomacy […]
Perhaps the truest metaphor for U.S. foreign policy today is Charlie Brown trying to kick a football, only to have his friend Lucy pull it away at the last minute, leaving him flat on his back. The United States leans on allies, especially in times of crisis. There is nothing wrong with this. Where U.S. […]
