Three Democratic senators are pressing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to halt a merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, warning that the deal could pose a national security risk due to the involvement of foreign investors. Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) urged FCC Chairman Brendan Carr in a joint letter on...
The Justice Department announced on Thursday that it is opening an investigation into whether Major League Baseball (MLB) engaged in religious discrimination when it issued warnings to three players for wearing caps with Bible verses on them during a Pride Night game. “Swing and a miss! Major League Baseball encouraged players to wear “Black Lives Matter”...
It’s tempting to try to forget the COVID-19 pandemic. Nobody likes to dwell on bad memories. But we do ourselves no favors if we forget how the federal, state, and local governments responded to the crisis — especially the public health bureaucracies. From the possible source of the virus in China to the effectiveness of […]
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are rightly focused on rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in taxpayer-funded programs. But in their search for bad actors who are bilking the public for billions of dollars, the White House and Congress shouldn’t only focus on famously porous welfare programs such as Medicaid and food stamps. They […]
A new YouGov poll contains an interesting discovery, which made sense but was, at the same time, infuriating. The two ends of the political spectrum respond in opposite ways when asked whether allies should support the United States. Conservatives say yes. Liberals? Not so much. That is a no-brainer. The answer should be an unequivocal […]
When Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez forbade U.S. forces from using Spanish bases to support the war in Iran and then banned U.S. military overflights, President Donald Trump was furious, but Sanchez stood firm. “We are not going to be complicit in something that is bad for the world,” Sánchez declared in a Mar. 4 […]
A year ago today, President Donald Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs, taxes on Americans that constantly changed, seemingly at the presidential whim. Since then, they have raised prices for everyone, increased costs for domestic manufacturers, and unleashed a wave of uncertainty across an economy that had been recovering from the Biden years. During the first few […]
Fraud pervades nearly every large program the state administers. This represents an abysmal performance by state government –– a record that calls for change, accountability,...
When President Trump left the courtroom midway through the argument in the case challenging his birthright-citizenship executive order, he was signaling what all of us...
The Iranian regime was shockingly close to achieving immortality before President Donald Trump launched Operation Epic Fury. If Iran were allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon, regime change from the outside would have ceased to be an option, and the most powerful bomb known to man would have fallen into the hands of radical jihadists. […]
