The smear campaign can only further alienate its targets without actually harming them, since CEOs sleep just fine at night despite Cousin Comrade's YouTube yucks, Bluesky blasts, and Instagram...
Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Xavier Becerra clashed nonstop for an hour Wednesday in the sole televised debate in their contest for California governor, presenting sharply contrasting visions for how they would deal with homelessness, soaring household costs and high taxes in the nation's most populous state.
For years, Cuba’s hardships have been explained primarily as the fault of the United States. External pressure can be real. But when the same explanation is repeated year after year, decade after decade, it becomes something else: a convenient refusal to confront internal failure, mismanagement, and the incentives that steadily destroy competence, initiative, and hope. […]
This week, the Kids Online Safety Act was favorably reported out of committee — an important procedural hurdle in bringing the bill to the floor of the Senate for a vote, and eventually, to the president’s desk. KOSA has been a long time coming. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R‑TN) and cosponsor Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) first […]
Voters are disgusted by the unchecked expansion of AI data centers and made their concerns known across the country in Tuesday’s primary elections. There were obvious signs this would happen that politicians across the country ignored — and they paid for it. A recent Gallup poll shows 71% of people oppose building AI data centers […]
A severe healthcare crisis is unfolding across the United States. Private Medicare Advantage plans are systematically denying vital hospital care to older people. Rejection rates in certain regions hit 80%. Do not let the word “Medicare” obscure the broader threat. This is not just a problem for retirees. Traditional Medicare dictates the baseline regulatory rules […]
Across the American political firmament, from far-left progressives to centrist Republicans and Democrats to far-right conservatives, a remarkable new consensus is forming and gathering strength: put “America First” once again. Out with the unwanted burdens of U.S. global hegemony in the guise of primus inter pares to prevent the emergence of rival regional hegemons outside […]
In the 1998 poker movie Rounders, Matt Damon plays Mike McDermott, a gifted card player who turns a climactic rematch with Teddy KGB after recognizing his opponent’s tell. Teddy has a ritual with Oreo cookies that gives away information about the strength of his hand. Once Mike sees the pattern, he knows something Teddy does […]
It is not difficult, these days, to see the neo-communist flipside of “Democratic Socialists” — once they find power. NYC Democratic Socialists (NYC-DSA) hold...
A federal judge in Rhode Island handed property owners a rare and useful win last week, and the reasoning behind it deserves more attention than the case has gotten. In SCLS Realty, LLC v. Town of Johnston, Judge Melissa R. DuBose ruled that Johnston’s seizure of a 31-acre parcel off George Waterman Road was void […]
The Trump administration is once again negotiating over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said Saturday that an agreement with Oman is close, but that the deal alone would not reopen the waterway. Washington has said it would lift its blockade of Iranian ports if commercial shipping resumes. The diplomacy captures the central problem of the […]
Russia has learned that influence can often achieve what occupation no longer can afford to. The Trump administration must be on notice. For centuries, geopolitical success meant armies crossing borders and imposing control by force. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shows that model still works — but it also shows how expensive it has become. Occupation […]
Abdul el Sayed just won the most expensive Senate primary in American history, beating Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) by a single point, surviving roughly $65 million in outside spending. He is now the first Muslim American to win a major political party’s Senate nomination, and stands a few months away from becoming the first Muslim […]
Optimism about reaching a diplomatic solution to the Iran crisis is premature. No deal between Iran and Oman has been formally announced, but what we know is not promising. Indeed, allowing the Strait of Hormuz littoral states alone to conduct the negotiations is a fundamental challenge to freedom of the seas, a foundation of U.S. foreign […]
Israel is quietly executing a masterclass in geopolitical realism, while Western diplomats indulge in hand-wringing and empty rhetoric. Advanced Israeli weapon sales to Latin America are not simply commercial side deals. Today, Jerusalem’s defense exports function as a practical instrument for securing a hemisphere under growing pressure from a hostile revisionist axis. That pressure is […]
