Democratic Socialists of America members and progressives who share their worldview are having a good political run. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani won office with a high-profile campaign promising city-run stores and severe new regulations on landlords. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is a top contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. In Michigan, progressive […]
I spent 14 years in uniform preparing for the threats America might one day face. I spent another decade in Congress studying the ones already taking shape. From flying combat rescue helicopters and the B-1 bomber to serving on the House Intelligence Committee and the House China Task Force, the job changed. The question did […]
For 12 years, the bridge was there. But the road was not. In 2014, China and North Korea completed the approximately 2-mile New Amnok River Bridge connecting the two countries. China prepared the necessary facilities on its side, but North Korea failed to complete basic customs and immigration facilities. The enormous bridge crossed the Amnok […]
Around the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, I wrote a piece for the Washington Examiner focusing on the critical state of 9/11 education in American schools. My argument was simple yet urgent: as personal memory fades and the milestone of a quarter-century passes, our collective failure to institutionalize rigorous, fact-based education about […]
The health of the American economy is too often evaluated by metrics that mean absolutely nothing to a family trying to stay afloat. Stock market highs and aggregate growth figures might satisfy financial commentators on television, but they don’t pay the mortgage or guarantee long-term career security. The real economic health of our country is […]
The Pentagon flew all 12 of its B-1B bombers out of RAF Fairford over the weekend and sent them home. Those are the aircraft that flew America’s strikes on Iran, and they left a week after British police arrested five men near the base on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts. Andy Burnham, the prime minister, […]
Israel and Greece recently signed the 3-billion euro “Achilles Shield” Agreement. Understandably, most observers immediately interpreted it through a military lens. But it is much more. The program combines David’s Sling, SPYDER, and BARAK MX with multimission radars and a national command-and-control network. Greece is acquiring a layered architecture intended to detect, classify, assign, and […]
Bill Gates has spent the past year warning that this wave of automation is different — that artificial intelligence replaces human thinking itself, faster than any previous technology gave workers time to adjust. On Aug. 26, 2026, he laid out his answer in a nearly 6,000-word essay on Gates Notes, in two parts: tax AI […]
Argentine President Javier Milei is hardening Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Malvinas/Falkland Islands while paving the way for severe sanctions against British companies. He has also initiated a sanctions process against 45 companies and legal entities, including 16 British and 13 Israeli companies. How are we to determine who is in the right in the […]
A teacher still has a classroom. An office worker still receives a paycheck. A merchant still opens his shop. Yet all three can lose their place in Iran’s middle class without becoming unemployed. Their earnings no longer buy the life their work once supported. That is the political significance of Iran’s economic crisis. Inflation is […]
Spain is rapidly becoming a serious hazard for international investors. Instead of upholding property rights, the country’s political climate now drives its institutional decay, threatening to compromise a fragile legal system. This danger was on full display on Sept. 23, when Madrid police executed the lawful eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal — an enforcement action […]
An American friend sent me a short video from a dinner in Bucharest on March 31. Kimberly Guilfoyle, President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece, sat with Sorin Grindeanu, leader of Romania’s Social Democrats, and Bogdan Ivan, then Romania’s energy minister. Five weeks later, Grindeanu’s party joined nationalists to bring down Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan’s government. […]
Yields on sovereign debt are rising across the world. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, the U.S. benchmark, is up about 1% or 100 basis points since July. That sharp rise has caused market commentators to warn of a sovereign debt crisis. Some experts on global markets place the blame on U.S. fiscal policy, […]
