I escaped China after helping lead the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square. Now I'm fighting for the release of Jimmy Lai, who bravely continued the struggle.
Two years removed from the train wreck of the Biden-Harris era, the American Left still has a major credibility crisis. Stinging from the generational inflation of the Biden years, they are desperate to center the 2026 midterm elections on “affordability.” Meanwhile, they continue pushing climate policies that are driving prices even higher. New York is […]
Throughout American history, housing has been one of the clearest expressions of opportunity, stability, and community. But every generation has faced housing challenges. Today is no different: Many communities understand the problem yet remain trapped by systems that make solutions difficult to implement. This summer, the landmark 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law. […]
In the space of one week, the people building artificial intelligence told the world it could end all of humanity. This month, Evan Hubinger, lead of Alignment Science at Anthropic, put in his own odds, “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.” […]
New Year‘s Day inspires hope with the promise of a fresh start. In that spirit, we have identified five identifiable goals that we hope will be achieved in 2025. They can all be plausibly accomplished, and by setting them out as priorities now, we can help make them all a reality. 1. An end to […]
The case offers the justices chance to revisit a widely criticized decision that trampled property rights by letting government officials reassign private land to politically favored...
I walked into James Mangold’s new Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, which adapts Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric!, with low expectations, largely because it seemed unthinkable that any film could do justice to Dylan’s towering legacy. But to my surprise, it quickly became not only one of my favorite films of the year but one of […]
Amid all the reminiscences this week about former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, surprisingly little attention has focused on just how brilliant a campaign he ran to secure the Democratic nomination in 1976. When the campaign began, Carter was the longest of long shots. He entered a crowded field […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has no doubt had a turbulent year as the leader of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, but any effort to replace him with someone else will not create smoother sailing. President-elect Donald Trump made clear that any effort to replace Johnson as House speaker lacks his support. […]
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has found there is now a record number of homeless people in the United States. Liberal policies are primarily to blame. The homelessness census report found that homelessness in the U.S. increased by 18% to a record number of 771,480. That 18% increase from 2023 to 2024 is […]
A recent study examining the government’s annual National Crime Victimization Survey reports that, during the Obama administration, “minorities, especially Black Americans … experienced high and volatile victimization rates.” By contrast, during the Trump administration, “there was a notable decrease in victimization rates for most minority groups, particularly Black Americans.” It didn’t last. During the Biden administration, “victimization rates increased […]
In July 2019, during the twilight of the first Trump administration, the Defense Department kicked Turkey out of the F-35 joint strike fighter program. While analysts can debate the wisdom of including Turkey in the F-35 program to start with, its expulsion was warranted: By purchasing Russia’s S-400 anti-aircraft missile system, Turkey put NATO at […]
It is easy for newspapers to pen dry remembrances of significant people who died in the past year, but it is harder and more important to identify those whose lives and work we should honor or emulate. From wide-ranging fields, let us pay special homage to the following Americans for contributions to the common culture, […]
