Some battleground candidates are going viral for shooting from the hip. Jon Ossoff is doing it from a carefully controlled script.
Ossoff drew attention Sunday for calling out a...
A federal judge shot down FBI Director Kash Patel's attempt to move his bureau's headquarters down the street to the Ronald Reagan Building, saying he broke laws governing site selection.
A poll released earlier this month claiming Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass had a wide lead over Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman in the city's mayoral race was bogus, according to the company that released it. Median Strategies on Monday said in its announcement about the mayoral race poll that it has stopped...
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Monday quipped that she "can't remember the last time" she saw someone wear President Trump's trademark MAGA hat. The former lawmaker shared a post on the social platform X showing a billboard that read "Trump Superstore," with an adjacent sign saying that it was "going out of business."...
President-elect Donald Trump can make his mark in history in many ways. He can tame Washington’s unaccountable bureaucracy, return America to low-inflationary economic growth, and eliminate woke practices. He won on these messages, and they are part of his mandate. Trump also stumped on being tough on China. And there is something he can do […]
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in United States v. Skrmetti, a case dealing with a Tennessee ban on transgender medical interventions for minors. The claim is that the ban qualifies as discrimination under the 14th Amendment and its equal protection clause. State Solicitor General J. Matthew Rice and ACLU attorney Chase Strangio, a […]
The brewing popular revolution in Georgia and the probable fall of the Assad regime in Syria demonstrate that Russia is losing its few allies and proxies. In both cases, Moscow has failed to ensure that the current regimes will survive despite years of military and propaganda assistance. And the future looks even bleaker, as Russia itself stands […]
Outside of the Supreme Court, transgender activists made many incompatible arguments. The different claims they offer seem to undo one another, but one thing is for sure: the movement has little concern with “doing no harm.” That transgendering procedures do effect demonstrable harm on unconsenting children is the opposing side’s basic argument. Side effects, irreversibility, […]
Biden administration officials are reportedly mulling whether or not to grant blanket pardons to a laundry list of political allies, a move that, if enacted, would be a tacit admission that the Justice Department has been tainted by politics. President Joe Biden already brought scrutiny to the prosecutorial process when he issued a blanket pardon […]
Year in and year out, Congress fails to perform one of its most basic responsibilities: to pass a budget. There is even a statute that sets forth the method and timeline for passing a federal budget. But instead, Congress opts for something known as a “continuing resolution,” which is a monolithic legislative setpiece that perpetuates […]
For eight years, the Syrian civil war appeared over. Turkish-backed rebel fighters held their lines, but Bashar Assad’s regime controlled most major cities. Though Syria might not have been united under a single government, Assad’s adversaries considered the war over. Many in Congress considered Assad anathema, but even his Arab adversaries had begun to consider […]
In his new, much-talked-about Atlantic essay, George Packer contends that journalists “will have a special challenge” in the era of President-elect Donald Trump. “We’re living,” he writes, “in a world where facts instantly perish upon contact with human minds.” For those unfamiliar with Packer’s work, he’s a celebrated author of numerous books, including one that […]
It’s pointless to rehash whether Donald Trump should be taken seriously or literally. Particularly when it comes to the former and future president’s economic policies. Rather, Trump’s words are best understood through a prism of the broader story about the markets and the broader U.S. economy. The Republican may toss out contradictory policy proposals, seemingly […]
The Biden administration is less than two months from its end, which cannot come soon enough. As a final insult to his staunchest defenders, those who long insisted he was a paragon of decency, President Joe Biden pardoned his convicted felon and all-around wastrel son Hunter. A more appropriate final chapter to his tenure, one […]
Absurdly and inexcusably, votes are still being counted even though polls closed more than a month ago, on Nov. 5. You’d think a developed country such as ours, which sees itself as a beacon of democracy, could get Election Day right. But, no, we make a hash of it every time. We’ve escaped chaos now […]
A new kind of tennis sport is slowly breaking out across the country. Created by tennis coach Nate Gross, “Spec Tennis” aims to find a midway point between the increasingly popular pickleball sport and conventional tennis. “I came up with Spec Tennis in 2016,” Gross explained to the Washington Examiner, “when I was looking for […]
HENDERSONVILLE, North Carolina — Two months to the day after the remains of Hurricane Helene brought unprecedented devastation into the mountains of North Carolina, the remarkable damage is still plain to see. So, too, though, is the good old American pluck. On a steep curve a few miles up Finley Cove Road, to the west […]
It is an all-too-familiar story: A president is pursued by his political enemies who target his family and use deep-state actors to engage in lawfare. That was the narrative last week, but it was not coming from President-elect Donald Trump. The victim of what the White House press secretary called “war politics” is none other […]
