A C-17 Globemaster left Joint Base Andrews on Aug. 25, routed by way of Riga, Latvia, and landed in Moscow. CIA Director John Ratcliffe was aboard and spent about eight hours there. The Kremlin says he did not meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. President Donald Trump called the trip semi-routine. What Ratcliffe carried there is […]
On May 29, the lower house of Poland’s parliament voted 428-3 to honor the 250th anniversary of American independence. Nobody voted against. Watching from the gallery was Tom Rose, the U.S. ambassador who had spent the previous four months in an open, personal feud with the marshal who announced the result. Rules of professional diplomacy […]
Since its passage in June 2022, the bipartisan Honoring our PACT Act has expanded eligibility for Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare and benefits to veterans exposed to toxic substances during their military service. While the VA believes the PACT Act may drive up enrollment in healthcare by nearly 84,500 veterans over the next decade, Jim Whaley, CEO of veteran advocacy group Mission Roll […]
THE ANTI-TRUMP DREAM COME TRUE. Barring some last-second surprise, on Monday a dream will come true for the Democrats, resistance warriors, Never Trumpers, and lawfare specialists who have hoped for years to put former President Donald Trump on trial. It finally happens Monday in a courtroom in Manhattan. Many legal experts, and not just those on the […]
Minnesota’s Department of Education tells families in the North Star State that its new social studies academic standards “prepare students for success in careers, college and civic life.” Unless that means training for life as a revolutionary, it’s hard to see how these standards do any such thing. The students undergoing this “education” would become […]
Arizona’s law against abortion dates back 160 years, but that does not make it bad. The state’s Supreme Court recently upheld the law, first passed in 1864 and then recodified two more times in 1901 and 1913. It was part of the Howell Code, a set of laws passed when Arizona became a territory. But the worth of something, a law […]
It was a bittersweet moment on HBO last Sunday when, after 24 years and 12 seasons, the curtain was finally drawn on Larry David’s sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm. Initially envisioned as a one-time project in 1999, the series started as an HBO mockumentary, documenting David’s return to stand-up following the end of Seinfeld. What ensued was among […]
From April 11-14, the American Educational Research Association will be gathering in Philadelphia for their annual meeting. Given massive learning loss and plunging faith in higher education, the challenges confronting the “world’s largest education research organization” are real. The list of topics calling for rigorous inquiry is staggering: exploding absenteeism, artificial intelligence, the effects of […]
Although it hardly looks like it, President Joe Biden may already be peaking in his race to keep the White House. His biggest internal threat remains: his inability to campaign effectively. And his biggest external threat looms: Though the country seems to expect a soft landing from inflation’s heights, this week’s economic data prove Biden’s […]
On Tuesday, Arizona became a new hot spot in the battle over abortion. The state’s Supreme Court voted 4-2 to lift a stay placed by a lower court on a law that prohibits abortions except to save the mother’s life. Discussion of the ruling has mostly focused on its political implications, especially for the 2024 […]
President Joe Biden has spent three and a half years buying votes with your money. Your taxes may not have gone up, because Biden hasn’t financed his spending with federal revenues so much as with money created out of thin air — which is to say, the cost of Biden’s spending spree has been rampant inflation which is still too […]
Over the past decade or so, a notable trend among American historians, particularly those prioritizing social justice in their research, has been to frame the unsavory facets of United States history as the defining features of the society. One useful way to think of this is as a version of the American exceptionalism the same […]
I owe you nothing. Not a penny. Not for the sins of slavery or white supremacy or “structural racism” or Jim Crow or redlining or police brutality. Certainly not for the existence of racism, real or imagined. The idea of reimbursing contemporary black citizens for the sin of slavery is one of the most corrosive, […]
In his new book, The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, bestselling narrative historian Hampton Sides tells the story of one of the greatest explorers ever to live, James Cook. Tales of Cook’s exploits have fallen out of favor. The once-celebrated explorer has become the […]
More than six decades after Norgestrel was patented, the progestin-only birth control pill has debuted on drug store shelves and online as Opill. It’s the first oral contraceptive in the country granted nationwide over-the-counter status by the Food and Drug Administration. Already, retailers such as Amazon, Target, CVS, and Walmart have listed a three-month supply […]
