The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. May 8, 1776 Gen. George Washington confirms sentences from a […]
There is a particular kind of government betrayal that arrives not with a bang, but with an obscure bureaucratic memo. No dramatic announcement, no press conference, no honest accounting to the public. Just a directive, handed down through internal channels, telling scientists to withdraw publication of their work — work they spent years producing; that […]
The Left’s message to wealth creators has hardened into, “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass!” Once upon a time, radicals who achieved or aspired to elected office concealed their fiscal militancy behind a screen of social conscience. They dressed it up as the unavoidable if regrettable consequence of a virtuous desire to […]
Graham Platner, a phony populist, rebranded rich kid, and self-described communist, is now the Democrats’ presumptive nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine. Barring unforeseen events, he will face centrist Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in November’s general election. He currently leads her in the polling average (though it’s always worth noting that Collins famously trailed in every […]
Tacitus never saw the Teutonic forests, but in his first-century bestseller Germania, he told Romans that the German tribes who lived there had an “inherent love of liberty” and a rude kind of self-government. The men kept their women “fenced-in and chaste, without seductive display,” and if they caught a woman jumping the fence in […]
Our age is an extremely individualistic one. This may sound wrong to the observer who sees collectivism on the rise, but collectivism and individualism are not opposites, as philosophers Alexis de Tocqueville and Hannah Arendt explained — they are two sides of the same coin. The less you trust and depend on your fellow man, […]
I wanted Ben Sasse to be president of the United States. Since he has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, that is unlikely to happen. A tragedy for him and his family, obviously, but a tragedy, too, for the country he might have led. I know Ben is a Washington Examiner reader, so I […]
The Los Angeles fires caused some $150 billion in damages and killed at least 12 people. Now, we know that it was likely yet another act of left-wing political violence. The man arrested and charged with setting the fires that eventually burned down the Palisades is Jonathan Rinderknecht. Now, federal prosecutors are saying that Rinderknecht was overcome by hatred […]
I used to roll my eyes when my college professors barred us from citing Wikipedia. Now, I couldn’t agree more. Teachers often argue that because anyone can edit a Wikipedia entry, the platform is an unreliable source. That’s actually not the problem I have with the free online encyclopedia, as changes typically undergo a rigorous […]
The current U.S. pressure campaign against Iran is often discussed in military or nuclear terms. But the more important question may be whether sustained pressure is reshaping the internal balance of power inside the Islamic Republic itself. Since the escalation between the United States, Israel, and Iran, followed by a ceasefire and renewed tensions in […]
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen to an all-time low, and no demographic is less likely to approve of him than young women. According to the Spring Yale Youth Poll, Trump’s approval rating among women ages 18 to 22 is underwater by 54 points, compared with a net negative 16-point rating among Americans overall. […]
The Chinese Communist Party controls America’s drug supply. Policymakers must reduce our nation’s reliance on China, and recently introduced legislation offers a good start. Sen. Tom Cotton‘s (R-AR) Securing America’s Drug Supply from Communist China Act would “eliminate the national security risk posed by CCP influence over entities that sell pharmaceutical products to the American […]
