Opinion

This is the biggest year in the history of democracy. Nearly half the human race will cast a ballot in some form or other of a national election in 2024. It is, optimistic observers say, a reminder that representative government is not yet done. If history has not exactly ended, it is still, despite everything, […]

Momentous Supreme Court cases sometimes arise from more pedestrian events. The justices will hear oral arguments for one such case on Wednesday. Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo has to do with commercial fishing. A national law passed in 1976 requires federal observers to accompany fishing boats. These observers make sure those vessels and their crew […]

The size, scope, power, and control of the federal government have expanded dramatically since President Joe Biden was sworn into office. His administration has initiated and signed into law trillions of dollars in new spending and promulgated regulations that have made it more expensive and difficult to conduct business or raise a family.  At the […]

On Jan. 7, an Israeli airstrike killed two Al Jazeera journalists in the Gaza Strip. The Qatar-run news outlet immediately accused Israel of targeting journalists and labeled their death an “assassination.” No serious journalist, diplomat, or human rights activist should give Al Jazeera benefit of the doubt. Terrorists have long used media to amplify reach. […]

COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA — National politics are exceptionally chaotic these days, and the harms are real. At the local level, the chaos is of a different sort, and it usually ends up being harmless. In the band room of Heartland Christian School, the 20th and 21st precincts of Council Bluffs, 100 Iowans gathered in the […]

For the second year in a row, every branch of the U.S. military, except the Marine and Space Corps, missed its recruiting target. To put this crisis into context, the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force ended 2023 with a recruitment shortfall of 41,000. There has not been a more difficult recruitment environment since the […]

Many of us were stunned by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s decision last August to prosecute former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Although I’m not a lawyer, it certainly seemed to be a rather novel, and highly partisan, application of a law that hitherto had […]

How bad is the tyranny of leftist judges appointed by Democrats to the federal bench in Western states? So bad that the Democratic mayor of San Francisco held a rally outside the city’s federal courthouse to protest one of the 9th Circuit’s recent decisions on homelessness. We have called on the Supreme Court to reverse […]

Eight years after losing the Iowa caucuses to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), former President Donald Trump won them in what may prove to be the widest margin in the history of the contest. The former president’s dominance was so substantial that networks ranging from CBS to Fox News called his victory just 30 minutes after […]

Exactly 30 minutes after the doors closed on the Iowa caucuses, both CBS and Fox News called a (likely blowout) victory for former President Donald Trump in the first presidential primary contest of the 2024 election. While the networks could not yet call whether former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who had surged to second in […]