Some Senate Republicans worry President Donald Trump isn't making a strong enough case for electing more GOP senators and is bashing his own party instead.
Dems running in battleground districts criticized over middle-class bios they are presenting to voters as financial records and other materials paint a picture of wealth others don't often have.
I tuned into my first WNBA game this weekend for one reason: the growing noise around Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham. The headlines, the viral clips of physical play, the debates over whether certain players were being targeted, and it all pulled me in. I wanted to see for myself. In the first quarter of […]
I’ve spent 30 years advising clients on risk they can quantify: interest rate risk, market risk, counterparty risk. None of that prepared me for the specific anxiety a friend described to me last month, driving his late father’s shotgun from Oregon to a memorial service in Pennsylvania. The gun was unloaded. It was locked in […]
During 15 years leading Americans for Prosperity, I witnessed many announcements about government regulatory reform. A governor, often well-meaning, would name a blue-ribbon commission. The commission would meet a few times, issue a report with a nice cover, and then quietly disband. Usually, within a couple of years, the state’s regulatory rulebook was longer than […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wants America to laugh off the radical, censorious, and destructive policies she and her ideological allies demanded before they lost the 2024 election and decided they should behave more normally. On ABC News, AOC was trying to shield Wisconsin gubernatorial hopeful Francesca Hong from any accountability for her calls to literally […]
America leads the world in biopharmaceutical innovation, but China is competing hard for that title. The greatest threat to American leadership isn’t Chinese competition. Instead, it’s American policy gradually weakening our own innovation base while Beijing strengthens theirs. Just recently, China’s drug regulator moved to fast-track cell and gene therapies, cutting its trial-approval clock to […]
For years, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has been maligned in Europe as Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s man in the Balkans. There is only one problem with this portrayal: reality keeps getting in the way. Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made his first visit to Serbia. Ukraine’s president came to Belgrade to discuss economic cooperation, […]
Every election cycle, political campaigns ask the same question: Where will the next votes come from? The answers are usually predictable. Campaigns spend millions persuading swing voters, increasing turnout among their base, and competing for demographic groups that both parties have pursued for decades. These efforts matter, but they often overlook a more fundamental reality: […]
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of North Korea? Most likely, it is missiles. News that North Korea has launched a missile is no longer extraordinary. Ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, short-range projectiles — the names and types vary, but the sheer fact that Pyongyang has tested another weapon no […]
The ongoing geopolitical standoff between Washington and Tehran is frequently analyzed through a traditional lens of military strategy, but its most defining feature is actually behavioral. Observers are routinely baffled by a recurring cycle of communication: The American presidency issues warnings of total destruction, only to transition seamlessly within days to declaring that an historic […]
I’m a glass-is-half-empty sort of guy when it comes to elections. I always see the race that could go wrong, the supposedly safe seat that isn’t safe, and the political wave that could disappear before reaching shore. But pessimism isn’t the same thing as denial. Republicans need a sober, detached assessment of 2026 because nobody […]
When the George W. Bush administration launched the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq more than two decades ago, China found itself in an extraordinarily favorable strategic position. While the United States devoted vast military, political, and financial resources to the Middle East, Beijing largely stayed out of the fray, quietly “concealing its strengths and biding […]
Equal parts George Orwell and unrestrained teenage hormones, director Will Gluck’s One Night Only imagines a dystopian America where a religious administration has banned premarital sex. The preposterous prohibition is enforced through biometric sensors that detect certain hormonal spikes and summon SWAT teams to thwart your carnal endeavors. The only caveat to this prudish regime, […]
For decades, Madrid’s leftist foreign policy establishment has substituted strategic clarity with moral bankruptcy, quietly strengthening Iran’s military-industrial capacity. At the same time, Washington policymakers indulge in the delusion that Europe stands united against Islamist aggression. While the trend spans ideological lines, socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero truly opened the floodgates. Spain’s own […]
European equities are suddenly a favorite of global investors. The STOXX 600, the benchmark index of European stocks, is trading at record highs. To illustrate the strength of the market, the index rose every day last week. Since the beginning of the year, European stocks have been up about 12%. The major catalyst behind the positive […]
