The radicalism that is consuming American politics can be traced back to American universities. Any solution will require overhauling higher education as it currently exists. There is no greater proof that American universities are fueling radical politics than Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, where antisemitic, terrorist sympathizing socialist Abdul el Sayed defeated generic Democratic Rep. Haley […]
This month marks 67 years since my cousin Raphael Lemkin died in New York, nearly penniless, with only a handful of mourners at his funeral. He had spent everything he had, his money, his health, and finally his life, on a single idea: that the deliberate destruction of a people is a crime, and that […]
America’s Middle Eastern allies are contending with a new reality. One in which Iran, whatever ceasefire or arrangement is reached to end the current war, will pose a growing and persistent threat. Iran has learned that its drones and missiles afford it massive leverage to blackmail or otherwise attack regional targets. Nations like Saudi Arabia, […]
President Donald Trump’s impulse is to believe that bigger is always better. Still, U.S. military procurement must be laser-focused on the extraordinary challenge of deterring and, if necessary, defeating China in a major war. The Trump-class battleship fundamentally undermines that focus. It would be very poorly suited for a war with China or a revitalized […]
“While others chased headlines, Ed Feulner built institutions.” So said former Vice President Mike Pence, keynoting last week’s William L. Armstrong Award dinner at Colorado Christian University (CCU), where we honored the life and legacy of Ed Feulner — the indispensable leader of the conservative movement for over 50 years. The award is the highest […]
Twenty-four state attorneys general and two governors filed suit against FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security last month, and the complaint reads less like a dispute over hurricane preparedness than a constitutional stress test. Congress appropriated billions in Homeland Security Grant Program funding for disaster response and counterterrorism readiness. FEMA and DHS now say […]
As the CEO of a public policy group in the Free State of Florida, one that has worked on health policy for nearly 30 years, I have never met Dr. Anthony Fauci. Yet as someone who has spent much of my career engaged in this arena, I read over, with interest, the inner thoughts he […]
The Senate Agriculture Committee just failed to advance its long-overdue farm bill. A narrow 10–11 party-line vote derailed legislation that has languished since 2018. The immediate cause was a bitter gridlock over the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. As a physician and public health advocate, I believe this standoff exposes a deeper problem. Washington is caught […]
The Democratic Socialists of America are riding a new wave of momentum. Their candidates have scored notable victories in Democratic primaries in cities such as Denver, New York City, and Washington, D.C. Prominent DSA members are also advancing an extreme Marxist agenda on national television. What stands out is that several of these rising figures are […]
The Texas State Board of Education has approved a required K-12 reading list, the first state to mandate a common core of books for all its 5.5 million schoolchildren statewide. Such selections are usually left to individual teachers, English departments, local school boards, or a mix of all three. The Republican-controlled education board recently voted […]
There was a time when nearly every city council member expected someone from the local newspaper to be sitting in the front row. Today, in hundreds of counties across America, no one is there. They are known as “news deserts.” The declining number of professional and objective media outlets covering local news is disturbing and […]
In Tehran, appointments to the Supreme National Security Council are rarely bureaucratic reshuffles. They are signals — about fear, factional power, and the threats the regime believes it is about to face. The return of Mohsen Rezaei, one of the oldest surviving figures of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is therefore more than another personnel […]
The car that starts in the driveway. The hospital that stays lit during a power outage. The data center that keeps the internet running. The military vehicle that moves when ordered. All of it depends on a narrow set of critical minerals and on the industrial capacity to transform those minerals into something usable. President […]
