Opinion

None of the South China Sea’s atolls is as disputed as the Scarborough Shoal, which lies in the Philippines’s exclusive economic zone, but which China claims as its own. On Sunday, Philippine defense secretary Gilbert Teodoro warned that China may be preparing to take permanent control.  China’s response was predictable. Its U.S. Embassy was quick […]

It was a disaster with a deadline. In the late 1990s, civilization as we knew it was supposedly going to end at midnight on the new millennium. Virginia sat at the center of the Year 2000 rollover, since half the world’s internet traffic then passed through a commonwealth company, America Online. State officials spent years […]

I permanently lost 60% of my lung capacity before my 25th birthday. Doctors have told me I may need a double lung transplant in the future. My condition worsened while I waited for approval for the only treatment that could help my lungs. Instead of listening to my doctor’s professional medical advice, my insurer denied […]

Monday is the third anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark opinion in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the case that ended racial classifications and preferences in college admissions. The scope and effects of this decision have proven it to be one of the most consequential civil rights rulings in modern American history. The decision […]

The State Department portrays the Erdogan-Sisi rapprochement as a “diplomatic victory” that will “calm” the Eastern Mediterranean. The record shows the opposite. Two of the region’s largest conventional militaries are now training together while Ankara embeds Turkish defense production inside Egypt’s armed forces. In September 2025, Turkish and Egyptian warships conducted their first joint naval […]

If you listen to the ravings of the denizens of the Left in the media, in Congress, in Hollywood, and in academia, you would think it is still 1964 — when the Civil Rights Act was passed — and that racism is not only still prevalent everywhere across the country, but that it is still […]

No country ever went into a bargaining session with less leverage yet emerged with greater rewards than Iran has just done. The regime was close to collapse economically, socially, and militarily, but President Donald Trump’s memorandum of understanding rescued it and gave it new life. The first stage of Operation Epic Fury was brilliantly conceived […]

It is difficult to reconcile the surge of socialism, specifically democratic socialism, in the United States of America, precisely as the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. In New York City on Tuesday, socialists won all three of the Democratic Party primary races for districts in the House of Representatives. All […]

Our nation’s ability to project itself into the future is linked to its fertility rate, which is falling fast. This should not be surprising, because the federal government takes trillions of dollars every year from working-age, fertile people and gives the money to infertile seniors. Now Sens. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) want […]