Opinion

When President Donald Trump signed the No Surprises Act, he delivered a real victory for American patients. For the first time, families couldn’t be ambushed by crippling out-of-network bills after an emergency they never chose. It was the commonsense, pro-patient reform Washington had promised for decades and never delivered. Trump got it done. But a […]

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. Before it broke for the summer, the Supreme Court, in […]

The Supreme Court last week struck down an executive order in Trump v. Barbara, over whether a president can redefine birthright citizenship by executive action. The answer was no. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, held that children born on American soil to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” […]

The World Cup highlights cultural differences between continents and countries. Korean fans shocked the world with how they cleaned up after themselves. The rest of the world isn’t so fastidious. Americans shocked the world with how welcoming and friendly we were. Most of the world isn’t so welcoming and kind. European fans impress Americans with […]

President Donald Trump last week declined to renew the existing U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement. The consequence of this decision is that while the term of the agreement runs to June 30, 2036, its individual provisions are subject to annual review and renegotiation in each year for the remainder of the 10-year term. Simply put, USMCA […]

Last Thursday night, the White House press secretary went on national television and diagnosed the problem with young Americans: They’re lazy. “This generation, my generation, I hate to say it, Gen Z and those younger than me have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouths, just getting everything handed to them,” Karoline Leavitt […]

In the latest twist to his never-ending saga of self-absorption, Prince Harry is having another temper tantrum over his visit to the United Kingdom this week. Harry lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Meghan Markle, and their two children. Why is Harry having second thoughts? Put simply, because he’s a truly ludicrous individual. More […]

The ruling on the Supreme Court’s biggest case of the term is in. The court found in Trump v. Barbara that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants born in the United States. Our legal system will continue handling anchor babies the same way it has for years. As problematic as […]

Congress wrote the sentence now doing more work than most of the Constitution in the fight over federal immigration policy, and it wrote that sentence in 1946, thinking about grain quotas and radio licenses, not presidential power. Section 706 of the Administrative Procedure Act instructs a reviewing court to “hold unlawful and set aside” agency […]

The early days of the World Cup have offered many inspiring moments — not just the goals, cultural displays, and stories of international tourists discovering America’s incredible treasures, but a quieter revelation: Everyday Americans, not politicians, are the most effective ambassadors our country has. Across the nation, they are showing off their towns, their food, […]

Former President Joe Biden ran as the steady moderate who would restore normalcy. In practice, his presidency became something stranger: a cognitively declining president whose White House staff, driven by “Trump derangement syndrome,” used his office to reverse policies that were working and to impose measures that would have been considered extreme even during the […]

As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, the most important question is no longer how the United States became the world’s largest economy. It is how we build an even more prosperous future over the next 250 years. That question deserves our attention because the world’s next generation of prosperity is being built today. Artificial […]

You’d think California state Sen. Scott Wiener would be celebrated as a hero on the Left. After all, Wiener has spent his entire career in politics advocating every extreme, absurd, and at times creepy policies that his radical base demanded. Highlights include  Given these examples alone, and the Left’s obsession with all things transgender, surely […]

Two days before our July 4 celebration marked the 50th anniversary of the formal reunification of Vietnam into a single country. The war had ended the previous year, in April, 1975, when North Vietnamese army tanks rolled onto the palace grounds in South Vietnam’s capital, Saigon. Surrender time. During the 14-month period of reunification, to […]