Republican Sen. Susan Collins vowed she won't be "intimidated" after her Biddeford office was vandalized, while her Dem rival Troy Jackson stayed silent on the act.
The war with Iran is teaching America an old lesson we should already know — air power can destroy, but it cannot occupy, control, or impose a lasting political settlement. I learned that lesson during two combat tours in Vietnam and again during the 1990–91 Gulf War. Technology has changed dramatically since then; however, the […]
The Navy announced recently that it is creating a new Robotic and Autonomous Systems Warfighting Development Center at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story. This month, the War Department added ChatGPT and Grok to GenAI.mil alongside Gemini. The Defense Information Systems Agency’s fiscal 2026 technology watchlist, meanwhile, places agentic AI and AI-augmented software engineering in […]
Just two weeks after President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner left Kyiv, calling their talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “very meaningful,” Russia is investing in the industrial infrastructure to sustain a war that Washington is trying to end. The contrast deserves more attention. The Sept. 6 meeting was part of the […]
Thursday night’s White House state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping brought together some of America’s most powerful corporate leaders. Their presence reflected an enduring wager: that access to China’s enormous market remains a prize worth courting Beijing to obtain. During President Donald Trump’s May visit to Beijing, Xi declared that China’s door would “only […]
With the November 2026 midterm elections quickly approaching, candidates across the country are once again delivering slick soundbites on healthcare affordability. But while politicians treat healthcare like a convenient campaign talking point, everyday Americans are making grueling choices at the kitchen table. Fresh national polling from Patients Come First reveals a sobering reality: Nearly nine […]
The Kremlin may have discovered the perfect election strategy: eliminate the possibility of losing. Why bother with opposition or the unpredictability of a free vote when you can simply remove the competition? Russia’s first parliamentary election since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion had all the familiar trappings of democracy, such as ballots, polling stations, […]
A dangerous autocracy is emerging on Europe’s southwestern flank, hidden behind a thin veneer of constitutional legitimacy. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and his ruling socialist party (PSOE) have systematically hollowed out Spanish democracy, transforming a NATO ally into a lawless personal fiefdom. Leaked internal records published by Spain’s Libertad Digital recently exposed a coordinated conspiracy, […]
While the United States fights a war against Iran, Congress is losing its constitutional war against the president. The Senate on Thursday rejected another War Powers Resolution calling for an end to hostilities in Iran, failing 49-50. The House had voted 220-204 to pass the resolution, which was the third time it had voted to […]
On the very first day of his second term, President Donald Trump took action to address the crisis on the southern border. The directives he imposed resolved the crisis so quickly that we all moved on to the next item on the to-do list without bothering to take even a moment to reflect on Trump’s […]
It is well known that the United Nations, whose General Assembly annual session ends this week, passes more resolutions condemning Israel than all other countries combined. Since the establishment of the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2006, approximately half of its country-specific resolutions have been against the world’s only Jewish state. The situation has become […]
On Sept. 21, Liberal Currents, a left-leaning magazine, published a poll of 683 Democratic voters conducted by the Center for Strategic Politics, a polling group that calls itself part of the progressive community. Its author, Chance Phillips, summed up one result with relief: “Thankfully, on net Democrats are not pro political violence.” He was describing […]
It has been quite a week for Diego Garcia, the U.S.-U.K. base that covers the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and East Africa. On Tuesday at the United Nations, President Donald Trump called the British plan to give Mauritius sovereignty over it a “terrible deal,” noting that B-2s striking Iran had to fly all the […]
“In a time of universal deceit,” George Orwell is often credited with writing, “telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” In his recent speech at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu committed a revolutionary act by pushing back against the moral inversion plaguing Western democracies as much as the rest of the world. […]
