The Trump administration is paying $2.7 million to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool again, 10 weeks after the more than its $16 million renovation was completed.
Vice President J.D. Vance said Thursday that opposition to data centers stems from fears that the facilities powering the artificial-intelligence boom will overload the grid and raise electric bills.
The tensions spreading across the continent of Asia have accelerated China’s aggression. The smaller nations surrounding the South China Sea need to band together to resist it. The hotbed of most concern is Taiwan. The small island nation has been slated for conquest since the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949. It produces […]
Of all the places to cut down on police presence, the city of Chicago should be the last one to do so. But Mayor Brandon Johnson and the city’s Board of Education are pushing to remove police officers from the city’s schools as soon as next school year. “The Board of Education is moving in […]
The Biden border crisis has exposed New York Democrats as a joke because they all continue to tolerate the conditions that lead to the violent crimes they also condemn. Multiple illegal immigrants jumped two New York City police officers over the weekend. Those illegal immigrants are only in New York City because it encourages illegal […]
BIG PICTURE: THE RACE TODAY. Yesterday we looked at a new poll on the Republican presidential race in the key state of South Carolina. (Short version: Donald Trump is 26 points ahead of Nikki Haley, 58% to 32%.) Now, a look at the national polls for the general election. First, there’s a question of how to assess […]
The Bureau of Economic Analysis on Friday published new data for personal consumption expenditures, revealing a 2.6% rise in the price of goods over the past year and a 0.7% surge in consumer spending, coming in higher than the 0.4% increase analysts expected. With fears of a recession easing, Wall Street is celebrating the resilience of the consumer […]
It’s arguably a sin of history, let alone Black History Month, that many people are unfamiliar with Claudette Colvin. She was Rosa Parks before Rosa Parks was Rosa Parks. Unfortunately, Colvin is just a footnote in the Civil Rights Movement when, in reality, she should be celebrated as a pioneer. About nine months before Parks […]
The social media industry has negatively affected the lives of nearly all minors since its creation, and its creators should be held responsible for the damage they have caused. A high-profile Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was held on Wednesday in which CEOs from five of the most popular social media platforms were grilled intensely by […]
Chicago Public Schools students read a “graphic novel” version of Marvel’s Black Panther and watch the movie to learn how “to advocate for a legacy for the future that is founded on a legacy of culture, tradition, and collective survival but informed by the historical legacy of oppression.” The assignments are part of the four-week […]
The Cuban music scene is dynamic. Music students form garage bands. Afro-Cuban women break barriers in rap. Jazz bands perform in art galleries. Aspiring artists record songs via cellphones and distribute music via CDs. On Feb. 16, 2021, seven Cuban artists released a reggaeton song, “Patria y Vida” (“Homeland and Life”), the title a play […]
An independent agency of the Washington, D.C., government on Monday determined that the city had made little progress in curbing the district’s crime spree. 2023 was the deadliest year on record in the city, with violent crime more generally reaching a 25-year high. The Jan. 29 report is an annual summary of gun violence in particular. While the […]
Six years after the 2017 tax cuts went into effect, the record shows that the law boosted investment and economic growth and provided significant benefits to America’s working families. Yet the Biden administration has opposed the tax cuts from the start, offering up a constant stream of misleading and incorrect attacks on them. Most recently, […]
It was a bloody week in America’s violent capital city. On Monday, police killed a man suspected of killing a motorist and maiming another while attempting four carjackings. This came after a weekend in which Washington, D.C., suffered 60 carjackings in just 72 hours. A nation’s capital represents the nation, and Washington, D.C., is doing that […]
