Opinion

Few know that the United States’s victory in World War II rested, in no small part, on achieving “speed to power.” On Dec. 7, 1941, aircraft launched from carriers attacked the U.S. naval station at Pearl Harbor and decimated the Pacific Fleet. Franklin Roosevelt immediately formed a war cabinet that, recognizing naval and land warfare […]

In the hunt for cheaper housing, politicians and analysts are digging everywhere they can to strike gold. One critical aspect is also increasingly getting its turn in the spotlight: credit pricing. The traditional standard, the tri-merge, utilizes information from all three major credit bureaus. It gives lenders a fuller picture to make decisions, and it […]

For too long, decisions that shaped the health of our forests, the safety of our communities, and the prosperity of rural America were made in Washington by officials far removed from local realities. That distance created policy gaps and unnecessary delays in service. It also silenced too many voices in rural communities. Since Day 1, […]

My daughter Megan is gone — from our home, our lives, her children, and from a future she deserved to have. I am left with a question that will never go away: Why? Why was the man who literally treated her like trash, dumping her in a trash can to decompose on his property, ever […]

With the state legislatures wrapping up spring sessions, Indiana emerged as a clear front-runner in successfully implementing President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda. As policymakers across the country consider their own priorities, they should follow Indiana’s lead to deliver real results for their constituents. Last year, Trump signed into law the most transformative tax and […]

Responding to President Donald Trump’s recent megaphone diplomacy, Democratic critics seized on the Constitution’s 25th Amendment, under which the Cabinet or Congress may remove a chief executive if he’s incapable of discharging the duties of his office. None of those brandishing this constitutional club at him genuinely thought Trump could be removed — Vice President JD […]

Few things keep me up at night more than our catastrophic dependence on China for the critical minerals that power our military, our economy, and our way of life. We are not talking about a minor supply chain inconvenience. We are talking about a strategic vulnerability that Beijing is actively exploiting and Washington has been […]

Whatever the outcome of President Donald Trump’s war on Iran, his push, along with Israel’s, to reinvigorate an American-led world order has only just begun. Before what remains of the Iranian dictatorship agreed to a tenuous ceasefire, the White House released its fiscal 2027 budget, which demonstrates the Trump administration’s understanding that securing American hegemony, […]

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) ran one of the most fraudulently “centrist” campaigns in the country in recent years. It got her the victory she wanted, and now both she and Virginians are paying the price for her duplicity. Just two months into her term as governor, a Washington Post–Schar School poll puts Spanberger’s approval at […]

The Trump administration is fighting the Iran war as a modern Western war. One state uses military force to force concessions from the other. Their contention blends strategic ambitions with economic motives. Victory is defined as forcing the enemy’s surrender and thereby attaining strategic and economic goals. This kind of war was formalized by the […]

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul — a Democrat who’s up for reelection this fall — has a message for people who’ve left her state and decamped to more successful, affordable, and functional places, like Florida: Come back, or at least cut us a check, so we can keep implementing “progress.”   “The fact is that I […]