Opinion

President Donald Trump is now following California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s playbook of making things more expensive for people and then trying to give away taxpayer money to make it all better. Trump’s tariffs have led to increased costs for consumers in the past year, as everyone predicted they would. This is obvious to everyone, including […]

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. After the Republicans took a shellacking this month, President Donald Trump pointed […]

KANAWHA COUNTY, West Virginia — Steve Lipscomb was a son, a father, a husband, a Marine, a man of faith, and a coal miner. Ten days ago, Lipscomb and his crew encountered an unknown pocket of water when a “sudden and substantial” flood sent millions of gallons into the Rolling Thunder Mine. Lipscomb lived up […]

President Donald Trump’s stark reversal on releasing Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein is a positive step. What these files mean for Trump, politically, is unclear. Yet, considering the president’s ardent insistence until now that the files remain sealed, their impact is unlikely to be positive. And if so, Trump may well seek to […]

The Biden administration tried to cope with widespread economic anxiety by gaslighting the public, insisting everything was fine, inflation was “transitory,” and the economy was actually booming despite what people were seeing around them every day. This approach did not end well for the Democrats. But the Trump administration, rather than learning from its predecessor’s […]

Michelle Obama is at it again. The aristocratic former first lady scolded Americans for not being “ready for a woman” president in the latest example of her condescending rhetoric. Moreover, her latest scathing comments about Americans were particularly rich, given that Democrats can’t even define what a woman is. Obama is arguably one of the […]

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and his undersecretary, Elbridge Colby, have made clear that the United States will not engage in counterterrorism in Africa unless the cells pose a direct threat to the American homeland. As Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimin, or JNIM, an al Qaeda-linked insurgent group, tightens its blockade over Mali‘s capital, […]

Following a threat from its consul general in Osaka that Sanae Takaichi should have her “dirty neck” severed, China remains infuriated over the admission by Japan’s prime minister that a Chinese attack on Taiwan would justify military action. Takaichi simply offered an honest appraisal of the devastating consequences a Chinese conquest of Taiwan would bring […]

It started with voicemail. An official from the Eastern Lancaster County School District called a homeschooling mother to announce that she’d be coming by the next day at 8:30 a.m. Not dropping off a note or asking a question. She demanded to see the mother’s high school diploma, as though a government officer could appear […]