A former Secret Service agent said Sunday that the Trump administration should be “looking at” scaling back the number of Cabinet officials attending the same events after Saturday's shooting at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner in Washington. “Do we need to rethink the idea that we'd have a dozen people in the line...
The Justice Department (DOJ) on Sunday pressed the preservation group suing the White House over President Trump's ballroom project to drop the lawsuit in the wake of Saturday's shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner. In a letter posted to social media by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the DOJ pressed for the...
Reps. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) and Mike Collins (R-Ga.) traded barbs while former college football coach Derek Dooley largely stayed above the fray during Sunday's Georgia Senate GOP primary debate — one day before early voting begins. Carter, Collins and Dooley alongside former Senate candidate John Coyne and retired Brig. Gen. Jonathan McColumn are vying for the Republican nomination to take on Sen. Jon Ossoff...
The Internal Revenue Service wields one of the most intimidating powers the federal government possesses: the ability to audit any American at any time. This is a power that can upend lives, cripple businesses, and tarnish reputations, not through conviction in a courtroom but through the mere process of scrutiny. Such immense authority demands impartiality […]
In the world of opinion journalism, you’ve got to be wary of arguments meant solely to churn out clicks, reactions, and responses by throwing a rhetorical cat into a crowd of rhetorical pigeons. Most of the time, it’s best to ignore these traps and get on with your life, but every now and again, something […]
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in Chiles v. Salazar, a case challenging Colorado’s ban on certain forms of counseling for youth experiencing gender dysphoria. The stakes couldn’t be higher for vulnerable young people and their families. We make unlikely co-authors. Tyler Deaton leads American Unity Fund, which advocates for LGBT rights within […]
Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for attorney general in Virginia, fantasizes about murdering Republicans and their children and urinating on their graves, we recently learned. We only know what Jones texts to one state lawmaker, and so we don’t know the breadth of the folks he would like to kill and exactly what sort of […]
Mental health irregularities, acts of crazed violence, and unhinged political activism have arguably become synonymous with the contemporary political Left. This radical and concerning behavior has escalated in recent years, mainly propelled by an irrational hatred of President Donald Trump, often referred to as Trump derangement syndrome, and an inability to process these emotions, culminating […]
GAZA CITY — Just hours before President Donald Trump urged Israel on Friday to stop bombing the Gaza Strip, I gained access to the besieged city of Gaza, where the last main vestiges of the Hamas terrorist organization are holding out. Israel’s political echelon ordered the Israel Defense Forces to stop operations while preparations started to […]
A new study conducted by the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Federations of North America shows a devastating growth in the acceptance of antisemitism in the U.S., and around the world. Their research has found that 57% of Jewish Americans now “consider antisemitism a normal part of the Jewish experience.” Following the devastating Oct. 7 Hamas infiltration […]
The Congressionally-mandated State Department policy review for Somaliland is well underway. It is long overdue. For decades, the State Department’s approach to Somalia was both ineffective and divorced from reality. As Somaliland grew its democracy, ambassadors like Donald Yamamoto and Larry André, Jr., undercut it by enforcing a “One Somalia” policy whose parameters represented more […]
Rural communities warned President Donald Trump that his unilateral trade war with the rest of the world would devastate farms, but Trump didn’t listen. Now, farmers face billions of dollars in losses, and the president is promising a bailout. However, the federal accounts built to aid farmers are low, and Trump needs a cash infusion […]
After the Taliban returned the wrongfully detained American Amir Amiry to the United States on Sept. 28, news of further prisoner trades has percolated. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that Amiry’s release was “an important step forward” to getting freedom for “additional Americans unjustly detained in Afghanistan.” At the time of Amiry’s release, a U.S. official told […]
Actress Olivia Cooke has a knack for playing the social climber. In 2018, she embodied Becky Sharp in an adaptation of William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, wielding charm and wit to seduce her way into the upper class. Now, in Amazon Prime’s 2025 miniseries The Girlfriend, Cooke plays Cherry Laine, a similarly ambitious daughter of a London middle […]
Is it worth shutting down the government to keep billions in federal cash flowing to health insurers? That’s a question Republicans should be asking Democrats every chance they get. The minority party has brought business in Washington to a halt as part of a wrongheaded strategy to obscure the out-of-control growth in health insurance costs […]
The failure of public school education for underprivileged minority children without political connections is the greatest civil rights scandal of our time.
