Bureaucrats in Brussels are at it again, this time tag-teaming with publishers to use harmful regulation to shake down America’s most successful companies and destroy America’s lead in AI development. For years, the European Union has been rolling out a tangled web of acronyms — the DMA, or Digital Markets Act, the DSA, or Digital Service […]
COURT SHOWS WHY TRUMP IS RIGHT ABOUT THE NATIONAL GUARD. The anti-Trump world celebrated earlier this month when a federal judge blocked President Donald Trump from federalizing National Guard troops in Portland, Oregon. In ruling against the president, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut complained that Trump’s descriptions of anti-government agitation and violence in Portland were so […]
No two states voted more alike and closer to the national average in last year’s presidential election than the two states that have gubernatorial elections in this odd-numbered year, New Jersey and Virginia. New Jersey voted 51.8% for Kamala Harris and 45.9% for Donald Trump. Virginia voted 51.8% for Harris and 46.1% for Trump. Aside […]
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. Venezuela‘s regime is coming under increasing pressure from the Trump […]
Shortly after arriving in Washington, D.C., 25 years ago, I learned something about the professional Republican class, the folks who made their money working for the party or its politicians. While most congressional staffers were pretty conservative, there were plenty of people working as political professionals who didn’t really hold any beliefs very strongly at […]
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, now locked in a public feud with his own church, is confronting a domestic institution defined by decades of Russian influence. The Armenian Apostolic Church is one of the country’s most powerful institutions. Over the past several months, the confrontation between the state and the clergy has been marked by […]
Democratic Party policies were soundly rejected by voters last November, so activists are turning to courts at the state, federal, and international levels to impose costly and painful climate change policies on consumers. But there are signs that common sense may prevail. A federal court in Montana threw out a case last week that was […]
The Future of Jihad is Female. That’s the name of a fictitious book in the new film After the Hunt. The film, starring Julia Roberts, is Hollywood finally, at long last, challenging the more hysterical aspects of the #MeToo movement. It takes place at Yale in 2019, and at one point students and academics attend […]
A new Washington Post poll reports that fewer than one in five American Jews say they feel “very safe” in the United States. 42% say they avoid publicly wearing anything that might identify them as Jewish, a 16-point jump in just one year. On its face, this seems to tell a grim story about rising […]
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