Opinion

Defending Education scored a major victory after a New York appellate court affirmed that racial balancing in New York City’s K-12 talented and gifted programs has no constitutional authority.  In IntegrateNYC v. City of New York, the court issued a 5-2 decision, resolving a 2021 complaint brought by Defending Education. The court found that the […]

The wokification of America was so rapid and shocking that it has inspired a lively, political spectrum-spanning conversation. There are multiple strands to this discussion, which tend to complement each other: Christopher Caldwell and Richard Hanania consider wokism as a twisted descendant of the Civil Rights movement, Yascha Mounk and Carl Trueman explore its roots […]

After months of pretending to be laser-focused on affordability, New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani decided to base his final pitch to voters on complaining about “Islamophobia” in hopes that people would forget about his antisemitism and terrorist sympathies before the election. On the day before early voting opened, Mamdani gave a grand speech about […]

On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to test President Donald Trump‘s resolve in increasing pressure on Russia toward ending the war in Ukraine. Trump last week introduced new sanctions on Russian energy giants Rosneft and Lukoil to reduce the revenue those firms generate for the Kremlin’s war effort. Putin tested Trump by receiving a public briefing from Russia’s top military officer, […]

Once again, Washington finds itself in a completely avoidable mess. The federal government is shut down, not because Republicans refused to act, but because Democrats chose politics over people.  House Republicans did our job. We passed a clean, nonpartisan continuing resolution to keep the government open, ensuring our men and women in uniform, farmers, and […]

By securing the southern border, President Donald Trump saved the lives of countless child trafficking victims, Tim Ballard, a former special agent for the Department of Homeland Security, devout Christian, and founder of anti-child sex trafficking nonprofit organization the Tim Ballard Foundation, told the Washington Examiner. “Nobody will ever give Trump the credit. With one […]

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has fallen victim to the latest political plague: White House Ballroom Construction Derangement Syndrome. As I introduced last week, WHBCDS is “the condition predicated on an irrational and overly emotional response to the president renovating an 80-year-old section of the White House to create a luxurious new ballroom, using private contributions […]

Thanks to the Democratic Party‘s monthlong federal government shutdown, September’s consumer price index inflation report was not released until a week before November, and even then, the Labor Department only published the report from the defunct Bureau of Labor Statistics to figure out how much of a pay raise Social Security recipients will get in […]

EAST GHOUTA, Syria — It is easy to drive around Damascus and remain blind to the horrors of the Syrian civil war. Much of the city remained unscathed and insulated from the brutal war that killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions. Former President Bashar al Assad’s palace remains perched on the hills overlooking the […]

President Donald Trump should use Sanae Takaichi’s accession as Japan‘s new prime minister to reset relations with our close Pacific ally. Trump has undermined trust between the United States and Japan by imposing 15% tariffs on Japanese exports to the United States, far greater than Japan’s tariffs on U.S. agricultural exports. This has damaged Japanese public sentiment toward the […]