The Senate late Wednesday night in a 47-50-1 vote opted not to rebuke the Trump administration a second time over its military conflict in Iran, as leaders convinced some Republican swing votes that doing so would harm the negotiations to end the war. The resolution would have been Congress’ way to reassert its power to...
A massive data center project in Box Elder County, Utah helped bring down the Beehive State’s Senate President, who lost his GOP primary on Tuesday after his support for the controversial development fueled voter backlash. Stuart Adams, one of Utah’s most powerful politicians and the longest-serving president of the state Senate in its history, lost to challenger...
President Trump stuck to script when he kicked off the Great American State Fair on the National Mall on Wednesday as a part of the country’s 250th anniversary. “Tonight, as we stand on the edge of our 250th year of independence, I am thrilled to declare that America is back,” Trump told a crowd of...
Technology is disrupting the U.S. banking industry. Cryptocurrency firms are trying to compete directly with America’s largest banks in pursuit of the financial assets of the country’s households and businesses. But the crypto firms that want to collect customer deposits do not want to be subject to the capital requirements and banking regulations that govern America’s biggest banks. […]
Wars used to announce themselves with troop movements, air-raid sirens, and closed skies. Today, the opening move is often invisible. By the time physical conflict begins, the digital battlefield has already been shaped. Modern warfare often begins when adversaries quietly penetrate digital systems such as traffic cameras, mobile phones, logistics networks, and data platforms. As […]
Unrelated events in recent days demonstrate conclusively that Jimmy Carter was the nation’s worst president, even worse than Joe Biden, who only pretended to be president. Carter was actually running the show in the late 1970s, and he made a mess of things. First, although most commentators acknowledge that today’s events in Iran began in […]
Partly because of the mass deportation of, and self-deportation by, illegal immigrants, rents are falling in most markets across the country. This is a good thing, but most people don’t dream of renting; they dream of owning a home. It has never been more difficult for young people to buy their first home and get […]
The sinister media soft-soaping of Saturday’s ISIS bomb attack on the Upper East Side shows exactly whose side these corrupted news organizations are on...
As Donald Trump’s Republicans look askance as he launches what looks to some like another long-term war in the Middle East, and as the anti-Trump Democrats hold up Homeland Security funding in what looks to some like prioritizing illegal immigrants over U.S. citizens, one is tempted to ask, what’s going on with America’s political parties? […]
Somewhere between the White House and the Pentagon, the nation’s leaders need to start giving the public a regular, clear, concrete sense of how Operation Epic...
While the UK’s “spineless, clueless” Labour government hammered out its “new definition of ‘anti-Muslim hostility,’ ” thunders Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill, “supporters” of the “brutish” “death...
Moody’s downgraded New York City’s bond outlook from stable to “negative” Wednesday, while Mayor Mamdani's budget chief went AWOL rather than answer City Council...
