Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday said the United States is in an “ongoing war” with Venezuela. “That is an act of war, it’s an ongoing war, to continue to take their oil, ongoing war, to distribute it,” Paul said during a Sunday appearance on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.” “I still hope it works...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Sunday said a potential United States acquisition of Greenland would be “overwhelmingly in America’s national best interest. “When it comes to Greenland, I want to commend President Trump, for being single-mindedly focused on America First, on U.S. economic interests, and U.S. national security interests,” Cruz said during an appearance on...
The wokeness President Trump has identified is a warning shot, proof we're building artificial minds we can't control — with values we didn't choose...
The WNBA began the second half of its 2025 season on Tuesday. And while the league undoubtedly hoped the attention would be on the competition between the teams in its marquee games, the antics of the league’s players from the weekend during its all-star game were what many people were focused on. Before Saturday’s exhibition […]
President Donald Trump’s election has forced some higher education institutions, such as Columbia University, to grow a spine. Columbia announced that it is disciplining an undisclosed number of students who took part in pro-Palestinian “protests” last year. One of those two “protests” was when a mob of students broke into an administrative building, barricaded themselves […]
Critical op-eds by Daniel Drezner and a number of others underline how Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby is unpopular with some United States allies and congressional Republicans. Allies are frustrated by Colby’s brusque emphasis on the need for their significantly increased defense spending. Republican detractors such as Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) say Colby […]
For a generation, Americans have had a historically large number of ex-presidents around, a possible source of counsel from one of only 45 people who have exercised the broad powers conferred by Article II of the Constitution. You might expect former presidents to supply elements of personal comity and institutional norms to current politics, and […]
PURE, UNDILUTED, UNADULTERATED JOE BIDEN ID. Former President Joe Biden has kept a low profile since leaving the White House six months ago. In May, his office announced that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, which it said could nonetheless be effectively managed. In the past few months, Biden has made […]
Whether it’s axing the beloved Aunt Jemima from the syrup bottle or removing the Native American woman from the butter tin, the renaming and erasing of “problematic” logos may, in hindsight, be the most vapid, performative, and ultimately useless of all the 2020-era woke excesses. This same culture revolution came for the National Football League, […]
When President Donald Trump returned to power earlier this year, he inherited an immigration system stretched beyond its limits in every conceivable way. At the heart of this crisis lies a glaring double standard. When migrants enter the country, it’s all about the quantity of decisions — admitting more people, faster — rather than the […]
At the behest of President Donald Trump, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has recalled the legislature to Austin for a special session from which Trump hopes Abbott can squeeze a few more Republican House seats out of the Lone Star State by redrawing congressional district maps. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has seized on this as fuel […]
President Donald Trump’s federal budget restructuring popped a hole Hochul's own $254 billion spending plan, so she's already directed state agencies to cut $750...
