PITTSBURGH — On Friday, Allegheny County official Abigail Gardner posted a video on her personal Instagram account telling local journalist Colin Dunlap to take his own life. Gardner is the communications director for Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato, the most powerful local elected official in the Pittsburgh region, and appeared in the video wearing an Allegheny County […]
It cannot be overstated just how deranged and despicable it is that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani continues to promise to operate as an agent of a globalist organization in violation of U.S. law with his promise to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Mamdani again promised in a New York Times podcast interview that he was doing […]
Should Americans care who Britain’s prime minister is? The answer is yes, and I’ll get to the reason why shortly. I ask the question now, however, not out of the blue, but because we woke up this week to the sight of yet another new British prime minister taking office — that’s seven in the […]
Vice President JD Vance has a young family. It’s understandable that he wants to balance the duties of his office alongside preserving as much as a normal family life as possible. Still, Vance should make slightly more of an effort to decrease the demands he is placing on the U.S. Secret Service. This concern bears […]
America’s freight rail industry, deregulated by the 1980 Staggers Rail Act, has spent four decades investing private capital to move goods more efficiently across a continent-sized economy. The proposed $71.5 billion merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern to create the nation’s first coast-to-coast single-line railroad represents the logical culmination of that progress. Predictably, some […]
The sunscreen in a beach bag. The toothpaste on a bathroom counter. The shampoo, deodorant, and skincare products millions of Americans use every day. Cosmetics and personal care products are woven into daily life, supporting health, hygiene, wellness, and confidence for all Americans. Behind these everyday essentials is also one of America’s most important manufacturing […]
Too often, public debate rewards dramatic predictions. Think tank gurus and activists win viral attention, warning that a new technology will destroy society, then sell their preferred policy as the only way to avert disaster. The more counterintuitive possibility, that innovation might strengthen workers and expand opportunity, rarely breaks through. This distortion was on full […]
For decades, Western policy toward Iran has been built on a flawed assumption: that the Islamic Republic is a permanent fixture of the Middle East and that the West’s task is simply to manage its behavior. Successive governments in Washington and Europe have alternated between pressure and engagement, and sanctions and negotiations, hoping that diplomacy […]
A coalition describing itself as acting for public health has filed suit against the Food and Drug Administration over its decision not to prioritize enforcement against certain vaping products and nicotine pouches while their marketing applications remain under review. According to the plaintiffs, allowing these products to remain on the market is a threat to […]
The debate over solar and farmland has reached Washington, D.C., and it deserves to be taken seriously. Americans are right to care about the future of our farmland. Productive farmland is a strategic national asset, and no one wants to see it disappear. The question isn’t whether we should protect farmland. It’s how. If Washington […]
The city told a man he needed a permit to pray in his own living room. The Supreme Court just agreed that’s worth a second look. Daniel Grand is an Orthodox Jew who lives in University Heights, Ohio. In January 2021, he emailed about a dozen friends and invited them to walk to his house […]
Every summer, elderly Europeans die in apartments that feel like ovens. A peer-reviewed study in Nature Medicine estimated that more than 60,000 Europeans died from heat-related causes in the summer of 2022 alone. And this summer may be worse. About 90% of American homes have air conditioning. In Europe, the figure is roughly 20%. That […]
In June, President Donald Trump described his ceasefire with Iran as “unconditional surrender.” By July, speaking at the NATO summit in Ankara, he declared it “over.” Oil prices jumped 6% within hours. The conflict is lasting far longer than the administration expected. And yet, paradoxically, the Iran war may end up being one of the […]
