In the last weeks of the Biden administration, Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf traveled to Syria to meet Ahmad al-Sharaa, the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham leader whose December 2024 march on Damascus ended the Assad family’s half-century reign of terror. At the time of their meeting, Sharaa was still a wanted terrorist in the United […]
In 2019, Marlean Ames applied for a promotion at the Ohio Department of Youth Services, where she had worked for 15 years. She didn’t get the job. A few weeks later, despite an exemplary work record, Ames was demoted and her pay was cut nearly in half. Her former position was given to a 25-year-old […]
If you’re too young to remember the tearing down of the Berlin Wall or even to realize why it mattered, Washington, D.C., may offer you something that also has symbolic value in the fight for freedom. Black Lives Matter Plaza is being torn up in the nation’s capital. Just like the wall that separated free, […]
Democrats’ public image is sinking, and Sen. Chris Murphy’s (D-CT) histrionics are part of the problem. Although President Donald Trump’s presidential approval ratings are ticking down alongside the value of people’s 401(k) savings, there has been no consonant rise in the public’s approval of Democrats. According to Navigator Research, a Democratic polling firm, a majority […]
Harvard claimed they believed in racial justice, but evidence revealed that it routinely rated Asian American students lower on their personal score which was...
New York’s Amish community has become an unlikely minority on the frontlines of a battle pitting Constitutional rights against potentially draconian public health laws.
Moves by the Trump administration to address rampant antisemitism across American college campuses have finally provided Jews with something the Biden-Harris White House so...
There’s still time for David Litt to revise his new book. It’s Only Drowning: Learning to Surf and the Pursuit of Common Ground is scheduled for publication this June; Litt, a former speechwriter for former President Barack Obama, should make some necessary changes. As it stands now, It’s Only Drowning comes across as elitist, its ideas outdated amid the […]
Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is perhaps best remembered for repeatedly insisting that the persistent inflation plaguing the Biden administration was merely “transitory” — right up until the day she declared she was “ready to retire the word transitory.” Speaking at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO summit in December 2024, Yellen expressed regret over the […]
