Opinion

America’s energy advantage depends on more than just the resources beneath the ground. It depends on the pipelines, terminals, and other infrastructure needed to move energy from where it is extracted to where it is needed. Without the ability to build and operate those systems under predictable rules, abundant resources cannot deliver affordable power at […]

On Sept. 1, 1920, French High Commissioner Henri Gouraud signed a decree that ripped Tripoli from Faisal’s short-lived Syrian Arab Kingdom, only days after the Battle of Maysalun. More than 200 Sunni merchants from Tripoli submitted formal petitions demanding reunion with Damascus. Gouraud ignored every signature to create a Maronite-majority Greater Lebanon and deny Syria […]

Americans have long demanded real answers about U.S. gold holdings. Year after year, they receive only vague political half-answers that raise more questions than they answer. The latest example is this week. On August 10, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), son of sound money hero Dr. Ron Paul, announced an unexpected visit to the United States […]

A Portland, Oregon, nonprofit organization called the Avenue Foundation gives $1,000 grants, marketing consulting, and coaching sessions to small businesses. There’s one catch. Applicants must be at least 50% owned by someone who is black, indigenous, or a person of color. White business owners aren’t invited to apply. The foundation’s own grant application says so […]

More than a century ago, Theodore Roosevelt spoke about his approach to foreign policy with a phrase that has survived generations: “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” The lesson was never simply that America should possess crushing military power. Military power is most effective when used with restraint, credibility, and […]

The Food and Drug Administration just dealt a crushing setback to patients living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Last week, the FDA’s advisory committee voted 9–3 that the evidence was insufficient to establish the effectiveness of Deramiocel, Capricor Therapeutics’ treatment for a heart condition associated with DMD. That decision will stand, and patients will suffer and […]

There are moments in the life of a political order when appointments cease to be administrative acts and become confessions. The men a regime elevates in an hour of uncertainty disclose what it fears, what it remembers, and what it believes the future will demand. The reconstruction of Iran’s military and security hierarchy under Mojtaba […]

President Donald Trump is evaluating how far to go to bat for Ukraine. The debate over sending Tomahawk cruise missiles and additional Patriot batteries has sharpened as Russia pounds Ukrainian cities day and night, and as casualty figures climb amid thinning air defenses. Trump campaigned on a promise to end American spending on Ukraine, and […]

Open any newspaper and the word “genocide” is everywhere, attached to a conflict now in its third year of international litigation, endlessly debated by legal scholars, contested by governments, and argued over in United Nations chambers and on cable news alike. Reasonable people disagree about it, and that disagreement drives coverage. Then there is Sudan. […]

Americans are not known for their patience in long-term wars that include consistent casualty counts. That record includes the stalemates or outright defeats in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Afghanistan War, and the second Gulf War, which followed President George W. Bush’s order of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In sharp contrast […]

President Donald Trump has demonstrated again why Congress should repeal the Jones Act. This week, he extended his waiver of the century-old law restricting transportation between American ports to vessels built, flagged, and crewed by Americans for another 90 days. Since Trump first issued the waiver in March, 211 ships have used it to transport […]