Opinion

While Washington and Silicon Valley trade blows over export controls, cloud blackouts, and sovereign equity stakes, society’s daily digital foundation is being subtly transformed. The battlefield is corporate governance.  Following Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s warning that foreign AI models distilled from stolen American intellectual property constitute “counterfeit software,” Washington is preparing a formidable regulatory lever: […]

Every election cycle now brings the same fight: one side insists noncitizen voting is a crisis, the other insists it’s a myth invented to justify purging eligible voters. Both sides are pointing at real data. New Jersey’s governor has acknowledged roughly 6,600 noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, with about 400 having voted. Michigan and […]

Rosalie Markezih was looking forward to becoming a mother. But her story took a devastating turn when her boyfriend obtained abortion pills through the mail and pressured her into taking them, resulting in the loss of her child. Her story raises a question our country has been reluctant to ask: “What happens when abortion pills […]

Government welfare programs are, by their very design, incubators of waste, fraud, and abuse. During the pandemic, the Biden administration created even more favorable conditions for all three to fester and for programs to hemorrhage money. The government expanded benefits in some of those programs, loosened eligibility rules in others, and suspended basic verification requirements […]

The Justice Department sued Maryland on July 9 to block a state law barring local officers from asking about immigration status or holding people for federal pickup without a warrant. Maryland is now one of more than 20 cities, counties, and states the department has sued since January 2025, a tally that reached 27 lawsuits […]

According to a recent report, nine of the 10 premiers will now allow full free trade among all their provinces, at least insofar as beer, wine, and liquor are concerned. Canadians ought to bow down and kiss President Donald Trump’s ring. That is because this new provincial initiative emanated from his recent announcement of a […]

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 […]