Opinion

President Donald Trump is adopting a positive strategy toward removing Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro from power. By gradually escalating pressure on Maduro’s regime without directly using U.S. military force against it, Trump increases the probability of an internal coup d’etat. Recent days have seen continued U.S. strikes against narco-trafficking boats, the U.S. seizure of a […]

One of my favorite possessions is a 50th anniversary copy of George Orwell’s 1945 novella, Animal Farm, with illustrations by Gonzo artist Ralph Steadman, whose chaotic, ink-splattered satirical style only enhances the masterpiece. I was thinking of this book as I watched the first trailer of the new animated adaptation of Animal Farm, directed by Andy Serkis and distributed by the […]

Congressional Democrats have portrayed themselves as arbiters of truth, defenders of morality, paragons of virtue, and every other benign assertion one could fathom in U.S. politics. They regularly decry oppression, suppression, rights violations, and the weaponization of the justice system, among other hyperbole, while remaining conspicuously silent when it involves colleagues or infractions committed by […]

A new report from the Society for Family Planning suggests that there are now somewhere between 130,000 and 150,000 abortions per year in states that have enacted heartbeat protections, or further protections, for the unborn. Many pro-life states are apparently on track to have more abortions within their borders each year than they did under Roe v. Wade. To be […]

With the possible exception of John Hughes, it is difficult to think of a filmmaker who so thoroughly defined the texture, tone, and emotional vocabulary of the 1980s, and whose influence extended so cleanly into the decades beyond, as Rob Reiner. His tragic death this week, alongside his wife, marks not just the loss of […]

Sheriffs live with the real-world consequences of decisions made in Washington every day. We welcomed the depth of the New York Times’s recent 4,000-word opus on the Biden administration’s border failures, appropriately titled, “How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration.” But let’s be honest: This reporting is years late. Sheriffs — Democrats, Republicans, […]

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) really doesn’t like it when people accuse him of suing nuns. The solution here is simple: He should stop fighting nuns in court. The Little Sisters of the Poor, nine years after defeating the Obama administration in the Supreme Court over the contraception mandate, eight years after President Donald Trump issued […]

An old argument has returned to debates over the war in Ukraine: that Russia might not have invaded had Ukraine pledged to stay out of NATO. Amanda Sloat, a senior official on President Joe Biden’s National Security Council, suggested this week that Ukrainian neutrality could have spared lives. She’s wrong. Russia would have invaded Ukraine regardless of […]

In the current discourse on artificial intelligence, the interplay between expected consequences and understanding of social impacts demands a rigorous reinterpretation. The former is the well-known, short-term impact of an automation technology: While it is pretty much certain that at some point AI will bring about new innovations and eliminate entire categories of problems faced […]

On Wednesday night, President Donald Trump angrily shouted a cheerful speech about how well his administration is doing. The bizarre and disorienting White House speech, delivered by a growling, red-faced Trump, failed to make news that some had anticipated on economic policy or Venezuela. Instead, Trump recycled a familiar litany of grievances and boasts, from […]