The Trump team has a point about how “trends” of “mass immigration” and the “Islamification” of Europe “predict the continent’s ‘civilizational erasure,’ ” observes The...
As the birthrate has fallen for the past 17 years, we have been constantly warned against “panicking” over it. The “don’t worry” folks and the “actually this is good” folks both have a favorite argument: People aren’t forming families less, they’re just forming families later. Often this is presented as not merely a personal […]
The Supreme Court will soon decide whether to hear Suncor Energy Inc. v. Boulder, a case about energy companies and climate change that could determine whether America’s energy policy is effectively dictated by local judges scattered across the country, mostly in progressive enclaves. Boulder’s lawsuit pushes against more than energy companies; it challenges the structural constitutional […]
In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. Time magazine will award its Person of the Year soon. […]
The horrific terrorist attack on National Guard members Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe by a 29-year-old Afghan national has rightly prompted the Trump administration to order a re-vetting of all Afghan nationals who were admitted into the United States since 2021 and a reinvestigation of all immigrants from 19 nations with a high terrorism nexus, […]
When President Donald Trump’s second-term national security strategy arrived last Friday, it landed like a lead balloon across the Atlantic. Yet while the unnecessarily harsh vitriol toward Europe is an American problem, the persistent shock and confusion among Europeans anytime Trump and his team say anything damning is very much a European one. For the […]
President Donald Trump added insult to injury in an interview this week, calling European leaders “weak” and describing the continent as “decaying.” There was more: “I know the bad leaders,” the president said, “I know the smart ones. I know the stupid ones. You get some real stupid ones, too. But they’re not doing a […]
There is good news and bad news when it comes to the nation’s defenses. The good news is that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon announced a $1.5 trillion initiative focused on national security. It is unclear how Dimon will gather the more than $10 billion of his bank’s own money that he committed for the […]
President Donald Trump‘s peace plan for Ukraine is music to Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s ears. Trump may be sincere in his desire to end the bloodshed, but how wars end matters a great deal. By rewarding Putin’s aggression, Trump does two things that make peace far less likely in the future. First, he rewards aggression. […]
One would think that after the failure of expert opinion during the COVID-19 pandemic (the mask flip-flop, the unfounded 6-foot social distancing guidelines, and catastrophic school closures), there might be more bipartisan skepticism about the wisdom of handing significant power to unaccountable technocrats. But not from all those who sit on the Supreme Court, where […]
