Sensible New Yorkers already were having anxiety attacks about their next mayor before a series of terrifying events in America and around the world underscored what an extraordinarily bad...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Monday that "the dam is breaking” on President Trump’s influence over the Republican Party. “I think the dam is breaking. Many Republicans may not have called him out, but last week, 13 Republicans voted with Democrats to overturn one of President Trump's executive orders, which enabled him to fire...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) slammed briefings on recent strikes on alleged drug boats, calling them “a joke.” “Were you satisfied with the answers that — you’ve gotten so far today in these classified briefings —” journalist Pablo Manríquez asked Ocasio-Cortez in a clip posted to the social platform X Tuesday. “Oh hell no,” the New...
Republicans on the House Rules Committee on Tuesday shut the door on amendments to extend the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, effectively setting the stage for a surge in health insurance premiums as Congress leaves for winter recess later this week. A group of moderate Republicans offered the amendments during a committee debate on a...
Operation Midway Blitz intensifies as Border Patrol deploys additional agents to Chicago despite local officials' opposition to federal immigration raids.
In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. Does any Jewish person outside of Israel feel completely safe celebrating […]
The tragedy of the Bondi Beach massacre of Australian Jewish people celebrating Hanukkah is that it is the tragedy everyone saw coming. Some Jews came to Australia in the late 18th century and trickled in fleeing Russia’s pogroms before World War II, but the bulk of Australian Jewry dates to the Holocaust. Polish Jews settled […]
After the Port Arthur mass shooting of 1996, during which 35 people were murdered and 23 wounded in the deadliest massacre in modern Australian history, Australia enforced what was celebrated by anti-gun advocates as the gold standard of gun laws, “among the most stringent — and effective — in the world,” as the Guardian put […]
The longest government shutdown in history ended on Nov. 12, 2025, 43 days after the Democrats first refused to vote to fund the government based on concerns over expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies. All Americans were held hostage by this fight over the ACA, despite the fact that fewer than 10% rely on the ACA […]
U.S. Trade Representative Jameison Greer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick traveled to Brussels recently to meet with their counterparts to finalize the trade deal framework announced over the summer. While the outline of the deal remains promising, our European allies are thinly masking their latest attempt to target U.S. companies with regulatory complexity in hopes […]
The murder of 16 people at a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney‘s Bondi Beach was not the only violence committed by Islamists last weekend. An ISIS member murdered two Iowa National Guard members in Syria, and Muslims attacked a Hanukkah concert in Amsterdam. Meanwhile, in Germany, five men, all Muslim migrants, were arrested after plotting to […]
