MONONGAHELA, Pennsylvania — Downballot primary results for seats in the Pennsylvania legislature and Congress had both parties heading into very different directions for November’s midterm election cycle. The Democrats are marching far left, and Republicans are beating back challengers from their far-right flanks. In Washington County, in a strident race, Republican state Sen. Camera Bartolotta […]
On May 6, Georgetown University Law Center announced that former Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro, its 2026 commencement speaker, had withdrawn from the ceremony. His apparent offense: writing opinion essays defending Israel and criticizing higher education’s response to the Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. After a student petition labeled his views “controversial, Zionist, […]
“Has China defeated our country?” chirped right-wing activist Mike Cernovich when reposting a clip of President Donald Trump speaking to Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Friday. The Make America Great Again movement, committed to confronting China, not Russia, was not impressed by the recent summit in Beijing with Chinese President Xi Jinping, whom it sees […]
Jeff Bezos dissed politicians’ "technique of picking a villain and pointing fingers," noting quite rightly that bad government policy creates many problems — including...
On the day Kentucky Republicans rejected pathologically Israel-obsessed Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-KY) reelection bid, Maureen Galindo, a Texas Democrat, promised to turn an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center “into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking.” The new facility, she added, would “also be a castration processing center for […]
President Donald Trump on Monday announced more than 600 drugs added to his signature drug coupon platform TrumpRx, increasing the number of drugs found within the program by more than 700%. For years, Americans have been paying too much for prescription drugs because insurance companies and the pharmacy middlemen they own have found ways to […]
This April, the international scientific committee that designs climate scenarios for the United Nations did something it should have done a decade ago. It officially retired SSP5–8.5 — the corollary to the infamous RCP 8.5 — declaring the scenario “implausible” and removing it from the framework that will underpin the next IPCC assessment. For more […]
After arguments regarding the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in Louisiana v. Callais last October, I wrote the likely holding striking racially gerrymandered voting districts would affect the West. Unsurprisingly, following Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s 6-3 opinion, Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray advised Fremont County that its use of a court-ordered racially gerrymandered […]
President Donald Trump renewed his commitment to seeing America win the AI race at his recent summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Trump administration has rejected the Biden approach of centralized government control and heavy regulation and taken the right approach of allowing American technology to flourish. However, these efforts are being challenged by […]
Within hours of its debut in February, ByteDance‘s new AI video generator, Seedance 2.0, was churning out hyperrealistic clips of Brad Pitt brawling with Tom Cruise on a rooftop. Darth Vader dueling Deadpool aboard a starship. Fabricated finales of Game of Thrones. Shrek, Spider-Man, the Stranger Things children, all rendered with startling fidelity and zero […]
The U.S. government is on a trajectory to a fiscal apocalypse in this century. Since fiscal 2001, the federal government’s annual planned expenditures have consistently exceeded expected revenues, with the shortfall covered by borrowing. As of fiscal 2025, total U.S. government debt amounted to $37.6 trillion, representing 124% of the GDP of $30.4 trillion. The […]
As Secretary of State Marco Rubio prepares to travel to New Delhi to meet Indian leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is poised to pass a law that could do lasting damage to the relations between our two countries — but if Indian leaders set the bill aside, it would be a win-win for both […]
President Donald Trump’s “Shield of the Americas” initiative seeks to unite the Western Hemisphere against cartels and transnational criminal networks. But one of the most dangerous fronts in that fight is no longer abroad. It is inside an American territory. In March, federal authorities charged 52 members of the Puerto Rican gang La Familia Nunca […]
