Left-wing commentator Hasan Piker's remark that American Jews' support of Israel invites violence against them has caused a public spat between Democrats in Michigan.
“The world needs to see this with its own eyes.” Those were the words President Donald Trump’s Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee shared with me as we walked through Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. At first, I thought he was speaking about Israel broadly. By the end of our visit, I realized he was talking […]
The Democratic establishment and the major news media finally admitted last week that their Senate nominee in Maine, a self-described “oysterman” named Graham Platner, is a total dirtbag. It should be unnerving that it took so long for Democrats and the major media to admit this. It was obvious to any close observer what sort […]
On June 10, House GOP Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-MI) looked Loudoun County Schools Superintendent Aaron Spence in the eye at a congressional hearing and called him weak, pathetic, and a man she was grateful never taught her children — after his district suspended boys for complaining about a locker room filming incident rather than […]
For decades, Washington has debated America’s energy future as though it were a choice between competing fuels. We have argued over oil versus wind, natural gas versus solar, nuclear versus batteries, while overlooking a far more important question: How quickly can America deliver reliable power where it is actually needed? That question has become impossible […]
Hypersonic weapons and long-range drones are straining the homeland defense assumptions that helped keep America safe after World War II. They have already shaped battlefields in Ukraine and Israel, and future variants will be designed to reach farther, fly lower, maneuver harder, and overwhelm legacy defenses. Meeting that threat will require two longtime rivals — […]
Senate leaders are weighing when and how to move forward with year-round national sales of E15 gasoline following House passage of the legislation earlier this year. Supporters say the measure would lower costs for consumers. The evidence is less clear. Before senators move forward, Americans deserve a closer look at whether those promised savings are […]
In John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces, set in early-1960s New Orleans, Ignatius J. Reilly is the ultimate self-aggrandizing dunce. Over-educated, unemployed, living rent-free off his mother, armed with a useless master’s degree and an endless supply of contempt for the modern world, he stages absurd crusades while contributing nothing. He rails against the […]
For the past year, the Food and Drug Administration has done the exact opposite of what it promised. Leaders pledged to accelerate innovation and speed access to treatments for rare diseases. That does not mean abandoning safety guardrails. It means applying those guardrails consistently and without unnecessary delay. Instead, the FDA broke written agreements, reversed […]
If you’ve turned on a television lately, chances are you heard a catchy jingle. One GLP-1 medication’s now-famous chorus, “Oh, oh, oh, Ozempic,” illustrates how direct-to-consumer drug ads have become part of our cultural wallpaper. But while these jingles are catchy, they are now under the federal microscope. In its latest 2027 budget request, the […]
Last year, Washington demonstrated that political prisoners are a convertible currency. After visits and calls from President Donald Trump’s envoys, Alexander Lukashenko released dozens of them in two batches — and sanctions on Belavia, the Belarusian state airline, came off in return. Whatever the merits of that trade, its lesson traveled. In Tbilisi, the man […]
Critics of last year’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) argue that the Trump administration is stripping vulnerable households of crucial benefits, citing a $187 billion reduction in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding over the next decade. Since the OBBBA’s passage last summer, the number of food-stamp recipients has declined by over 4.1 million […]
President Donald Trump has learned something the ayatollahs have known for 47 years: Revolutionary regimes don’t fold at the negotiating table. Despite Iranian promises at the negotiating table, the Strait of Hormuz is still a chokepoint, Iran is firing at tankers, and nobody in Tehran has renounced the nuclear program. The optimism of June has […]
Although the process of extricating the U.S. from various open-ended, cold war legacy security commitments shrouded in ambiguity is chaotic — more enraged bull in China shop theatrics than dispassionate Bismarckian realpolitik chess — President Donald Trump is rediscovering the vital national interests of the United States, and fundamentally restructuring U.S. grand strategy to refocus […]
As large-scale hostilities between the United States and Iran resume, it’s time to ask hard questions about America’s Middle East basing footprint. Seven Americans have died on U.S. military bases during the Iran war. Not on the front lines, on installations that were supposed to deter Iranian aggression and instead became its targets. The conflict […]
