The backdrop was perfect: the Acropolis at sunset, bathed in golden light. The topic was equally worthy: Greece’s role in the extraordinary success of Western civilization. And the goal was ambitious: to rekindle confidence in Western traditions and institutions as we confront authoritarian regimes in China and Russia, Islamic theocracies in the Middle East, and […]
Democrats have so insulated themselves in their liberal media echo chamber that they have lost the ability to debate beyond their rehearsed attacks and social media talking points. With the 2026 midterm elections just a month away, candidates in several important races took to the debate stage over the past week, with Democrats struggling to […]
The midterm elections are less than a month away. You might, therefore, expect Republicans to fixate on political messaging that galvanizes loyal voters and attracts independents, especially since the polls suggest that the GOP is facing the loss of both the House and the Senate. Political messaging certainly is at the forefront of many Republican […]
In September 1990, President George H.W. Bush stood before Congress and spoke of a “new world order” — a system in which American power could bring countries together to enforce rules, contain aggression, and expand collective security. Within months, he had built a coalition of some thirty-five nations that drove Iraq out of Kuwait. American […]
America’s first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, born of the Pacific Railway Act that President Abraham Lincoln signed into law seven years earlier. It was meant to knit the country together, coast to coast, on steel rails. So why, more than 150 years later, can’t a shipper move a single load from one ocean […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) recently told a Republican convention that he rejects socialism. That a sitting Democratic senator would go out of his way to say so is worth noticing. The occasion was the Republican National Committee’s first-ever midterm convention in Dallas, to which Fetterman sent a video that introduced his home-state senate colleague, Republican […]
Much of the criticism of Zionism rests with a perception that during the 1948 war, they defeated a broad-based Palestinian national movement. The 2025 documentary, 1936, claimed that the three-year revolt that began then crystallized these aspirations. The actual reality is strikingly different. The documentary totally misrepresents the uprising. It leaves out its leader, the […]
Yogi Berra said it best: It’s deja vu all over again. Color-coded monthly dashboards. Separate promotion conversations for candidates who moved demographic numbers in the “right” direction. Leadership programs with the door closed to the “wrong” race or sex. These are just a few of the flashing indicators that companies who should have known better […]
On the evening of Sept. 30, Tennessee gave Christa Pike a dose of pentobarbital, then a backup dose. She did not die. Witnesses heard her breathing behind the curtain for close to an hour, and she left the prison in an ambulance instead of a hearse. A week later, her lawyers say she is conscious […]
When Ronald Reagan entered the White House in 1981, he voluntarily placed the liquid assets from his $4 million fortune into a blind trust. For decades, presidents across both parties followed a similar standard, freezing their personal business activities while in office so they could focus entirely on serving the American people. It was a […]
When I was just 22 years old, I was a passenger in a motorcycle crash that left me paralyzed from the chest down. Yet ever since, I’ve been able to live an independent, fulfilling life, thanks to modern medicine and medical devices. But soon, a federal agency could strip away my access to some of […]
Living on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the environment isn’t an abstract scientific white paper — it is the bedrock of our regional economy, our heritage, and our daily life. The health of the Chesapeake Bay directly impacts our watermen, our farmers, and our tourism industries. Yet, the national discourse surrounding environmental policy has devolved into a […]
In counterintelligence, you learn to read a document twice: once for what it says, and once for what hides between the words and between the paragraphs. The second reading usually tells you more. On Oct. 7, the third anniversary of the Hamas massacre in southern Israel, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a four-paragraph […]
