Don't be fooled by his boasts: Mayor Mamdani’s supposedly balanced budget rests on a series of one-time tricks that got him through this year — and won’t be available...
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Sunday that the renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool suffered "multiple gashes" to the industrial liner that add up to 350 feet of damage.
California fostered the conditions for the Los Angeles wildfires through poor forest management, lackluster water storage, and incompetent leadership. Naturally, the state wants to ignore those problems and focus on its expertise: hyperregulating normal people and pretending that these regulations move the needle. California is currently “drafting the toughest statewide rules in the country for […]
“Almost everybody in the U.S. government agrees that TikTok represents a serious national security risk” . . . except President Trump, gripes National Review’s...
Zohran Mamdani and his cadre engage in chest-pounding about their intentions to "seize the means of production" while living off their parents. Their problem: socialism...
In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. It’s as predictable as the Cleveland Browns sitting at home […]
By unilaterally gutting the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have replaced decades of successful evidence-based public health policy with ideology, conspiracy thinking, and medical malpractice. This is not reform. It is vandalism. Without meaningful consultation with pediatricians, public health officials, or the Advisory […]
Before the new year, Netflix announced it would acquire significant portions of Warner Bros. Perhaps unsurprisingly, some policymakers and commentators have already rushed to claim such a transaction would be bad for consumers and lead to harmful industry concentration — or even market dominance by a single firm. They should take a step back before rushing to judgment. Such […]
The following is an edited excerpt from Something Wicked: Why Feminism Can’t Be Fused with Christianity, set for publication on Jan. 20. The idea that marriage is simply a kind of equal partnership between a man and woman is a model that Western culture purchased a long time ago and at a high price. Poet and author […]
Appalling scenes from the fatal New Year’s Eve bar fire in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, were captured on camera phones by people there for the party. In video shared on social media, one sees dancers parading behind a man who progresses through the bar with a sparkler held aloft close to the low basement ceiling. Then you […]
The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a new 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. Jan. 7, 1776 Cambridge, Massachusetts Anxious over the fate […]
Much could still go wrong for the United States following last week’s stunningly successful removal of illegitimate Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. For one, loyalists of the Chavista regime might dig in for the long haul, forcing President Donald Trump to make good on his threat of a second strike more devastating than the first. China, […]
