A C-17 Globemaster left Joint Base Andrews on Aug. 25, routed by way of Riga, Latvia, and landed in Moscow. CIA Director John Ratcliffe was aboard and spent about eight hours there. The Kremlin says he did not meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. President Donald Trump called the trip semi-routine. What Ratcliffe carried there is […]
On May 29, the lower house of Poland’s parliament voted 428-3 to honor the 250th anniversary of American independence. Nobody voted against. Watching from the gallery was Tom Rose, the U.S. ambassador who had spent the previous four months in an open, personal feud with the marshal who announced the result. Rules of professional diplomacy […]
Should Texas taxpayers be forced to fund institutions with connections to radical Islamist networks? They will if certain activist groups have their way. In a letter sent to the Texas attorney general last year, acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock raised concerns that numerous schools applying to take part in Texas’s new school choice program, Texas Education […]
For decades, China has found the loopholes in the U.S.’s economic system and exploited them to the hilt. This is true in technology, finance, and national security. But nowhere has it been more evident than in how Chinese companies have taken advantage of weaknesses in our trade laws to undermine the United States economically, flooding […]
A strain of commentary, prevalent on both the isolationist right and the anti-interventionist left, insists on framing the military campaign against Iran as “Israel’s war.” The claim is convincing in its simplicity and serves a recognizable political function: it feeds a broader campaign to demonize Western power and delegitimize its exercise. It is also wrong. […]
Progressive outrage over U.S.-Israeli military strikes against the Iranian regime could not be more revealing. As Iranians celebrated in the streets and in diaspora communities around the world, many on the American Left aimed their strongest condemnation not at the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — but at President Donald Trump. For years, Democrats have cloaked […]
The reported shift in diplomatic activity toward Islamabad marks a critical inflection point in the U.S.-Iranian conflict. In a post-strike Tehran, the identity of the Iranian delegation will do more than shape negotiations — it will offer one of the clearest available signals of who holds power inside the regime. Using who shows up to […]
Hostile powers have undue influence in U.S. classrooms. The United States must do more to prevent adversaries from spreading poisonous ideologies in taxpayer-funded schools and programs. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce recently released what it called a “bombshell” report on antisemitism and higher education. The investigation was spurred by pro-Hamas riots and […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been a workhorse for President Donald Trump and a steady hand in a volatile global landscape, serving as a rare bridge between the administration’s ‘America First‘ agenda and the traditional tenets of Republican foreign policy. Yet, when positioned alongside the rising momentum of Vice President JD Vance, Rubio’s path […]
Despite much progress, university wokeness is not dead. Syracuse University effectively accusing its men’s lacrosse team of glorifying genocide is proof positive of that. The Syracuse men’s lacrosse team is arguably the best sports program at the university right now, and the team’s defensive coordinator introduced a new mantra to keep the success going: “Burn […]
