The death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday following joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran was met with praise from some lawmakers and world leaders, and left others condemning the Trump administration and declaring its actions illegal. Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), the only Iranian American member of Congress, called Khamenei the "epitome of evil" and said,...
Iran now stands without its supreme leader for 36 years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after joint strikes from the U.S. and Israel on Saturday killed him and attacked military command posts and missile sites across the country. President Trump announced the strikes at 2:30 a.m. EST in a video shared on Truth Social. The mission, dubbed...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth late on Saturday broke his silence about the U.S. strikes on Iran, which he described as the "most lethal, most complex, and most-precision aerial operation in history." "The Iranian regime had their chance, yet refused to make a deal — and now they are suffering the consequences," Hegseth said in a...
Tuesday is one of the most consequential days of the year in Texas politics. Voters will decide who appears on the November ballot - or in many cases, who advances to a May runoff.
It’s hard to imagine a more fitting start to a global climate conference than the lights going out. But that is what happened during the opening ceremony of the United Nations COP30 talks in Brazil. The event sank further into chaos when indigenous protesters broke through the security perimeter and U.N. staff had to be […]
Western liberalism is evidently so free of real hardship that its otherwise comfortably spoiled adherents will fake martyrdom just to seem interesting. See: Stephen Colbert, whose cross to bear is that CBS will no longer pay him an estimated $15 million per year to host a failing show. See also author Margaret Atwood, whose book, […]
In The Land Trap, Mike Bird of The Economist has given us something a little unexpected. It’s a history of land ownership and its consequences that spans several centuries and multiple continents. Sure, readers encounter some trendy topics from the worlds of real estate and housing policy — bubbles, crashes, the failure of modern big […]
In Jack Carr’s outstanding series of thrillers featuring the fictional former Navy SEAL and intelligence operative James Reece, there are several mentions of and passages about Reece’s father, Thomas Reece, a CIA officer and former Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam. The latest entry, Cry Havoc, puts Tom Reece front and center in the action […]
In the annals of boxing’s greatest heavyweight champions, two names often enter the conversation: Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. They each had Irish backgrounds, were ring-savvy, had real punching power, and rarely lost. Their two titanic battles were highly anticipated events in the Roaring Twenties. Even though nearly a century has passed since they fought, […]
The BBC is a big part of why the United Kingdom is less free than the United States. If your chief exposure to Britain’s state broadcaster is through dramas (Dr Who) or documentaries (Planet Earth), you will have little idea of the pervasive and sedulous news bias of what is still Britain’s most watched TV […]
It’s a much-needed correction for states that had “farm-bill legalization” unwillingly thrust on them — and the many kids unwittingly harmed as a result.
Obamacare imposed massive regulations on the individual insurance market to cover the sick and lower costs, but it's failed on both counts. It's time...
Chinese director Zhu Rikun was forced to cancel the NYC-based IndieChina Film Festival after the CCP harassed participants and their families over the inclusion...
