A weekend of protests in Minnesota displayed continued tensions over the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) massive immigration crackdown in the state. Protesters and federal officers clashed during a demonstration outside of the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Monday evening. After a person threw fireworks at the officers, the federal authorities deployed tear gas...
IRS called to investigate CAIR-California tax-exempt status after Chairman Jason Smith refers the nonprofit, alleging misuse of taxpayer funds and unlawful activity support.
The new executive order will no doubt provoke progressive Democrats to champion the finer points of burning Old Glory — and defending that ungrateful...
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson claimed that incarcerating violent criminals is "racist" and "immoral" — and that it won't solve the crime problem in his...
Russia’s major overnight missile strike on Kyiv reflects Vladimir Putin’s desire to squeeze Ukraine and to divide the United States and Europe in their respective policies towards Russia. The attacks, which predominantly targeted civilian residential apartment buildings, killed at least 21 people, including four children. At least one strike badly damaged the European Union office […]
Artificial intelligence companies rushed out their chatbots for mass public use with little regard for how they would be used. This reckless push into an AI future is full of insufficient safeguards and disastrous consequences. On Tuesday, Anthropic released a report saying that a hacker used its Claude Code chatbot to identify vulnerable companies, hack […]
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. Whether President Donald Trump can wrest control of the Federal Reserve […]
The politics of artificial intelligence are quickly becoming a contest over regulation, with lawmakers and agencies competing to demonstrate vigilance rather than focusing on enabling innovation. The Senate’s decision to strip a decadelong federal moratorium on state AI rules from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was a case in point. In one day, Washington, […]
This op-ed first appeared in The Gazette, the Washington Examiner’s Colorado Springs-based sister publication. The national conversation turns once again to marijuana and a potential federal rescheduling from Schedule I to Schedule II, or even lower. Big Pot’s new ad blitz, sponsored in part by Big Pot’s new investors — Big Tobacco/Big Pharma/Big Alcohol — […]
Close your eyes for a moment and consider the following: A deranged maniac sprays bullets into a Planned Parenthood. Or a mosque. Or a gay nightclub. The killer displays right-wing slogans all over his weaponry. This includes a bullet-holed target board with an image directly related to the target site: an aborted fetus, a crescent […]
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. President Donald Trump is being denounced for deploying the National Guard […]
Earlier this year, the Trump administration wisely dropped a Biden administration lawsuit against Zelle. But now Letitia James, the far-left attorney general of New York, has revived the bogus Biden claims in a new lawsuit against the money transfer network. If she prevails, the biggest beneficiaries will be fraudsters and scammers. It’s striking that James […]
Earlier this year, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that President Donald Trump had a new strategy for funding the federal government: an External Revenue Service. “[The President’s] plan is very simple: to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and let all the outsiders pay,” he told Fox News in February. The “outsiders,” according to Lutnick, were foreign nations, […]
