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 […]
The United States is building far fewer semiconductors today than it once did, leaving the country increasingly dependent on foreign producers. The U.S.’s share of worldwide semiconductor manufacturing decreased from 37% in 1990 to less than 10% in 2022. To ameliorate this shift, Congress had taxpayers front $280 billion via the 2022 Creating Helpful Incentives […]
U.S. cities are hollowing out. Between 2020 and 2024, New York City lost 18% of its population under age 5. Chicago’s Cook County shed 15%. Los Angeles County, 14%. These aren’t marginal shifts, and they represent a wholesale abandonment of urban cores by the demographic cities need most: families with children. The exodus is no mystery. U.S. cities […]
Technology has become the central arena of geopolitical competition. In this new landscape, market access and innovation capacity are no longer just commercial metrics. They are the primary instruments of national power. Yet, in a rush to secure American dominance, some in Washington are pushing legislation that threatens to dismantle the very engine of U.S. […]
Oil is again above $100 per barrel, and gas prices at the pump are at $1 more than they were just a month ago, before the war began. Iran’s attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz are causing global economic strife. Welcome to Greta Thunberg’s world. Many liberals have long rallied around the Swedish environmental activist in […]
President Donald Trump has moved aggressively to dismantle woke ideology in the federal government, but there is one holdout where our tax dollars are still funding the woke mind virus: contracts with America’s National Academies. It’s time for the president to cut them off. Among his first acts back in office, Trump signed two executive orders to […]
Amid surging gas and food prices, the Pentagon has requested $200 billion to replenish ammunition and fund operations critical to the war effort in Iran. Yet, bombs and bullets alone will never defeat the Islamist diehards that hold positions of power in the Islamic Republic of Iran. If members of Congress are serious about destroying […]
My fellow Canadians love to hate President Donald Trump, but it would be nice if we had an anti-DEI crusader like him. The U.S. president has gone to great lengths to drive that discriminatory ideology out of higher education. In particular, he has successfully pressured the accreditor who oversees the country’s 150-plus medical schools to ditch its […]
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is currently placed seventh among candidates in the latest poll of California’s governor race. That’s an ignominious 12 points behind the option, “someone else.” But that hasn’t stopped him from landing prominent national media appearances, including an interview with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show. The comedian noted that Democrats […]
In the 2025 Virginia elections, the Democrats won large victories, obtaining a nearly 2-to-1 majority in the House of Delegates and electing Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA). During the election, Spanberger presented herself as a political centrist, although few of the newly elected Democrats in the House of Delegates made any such pretensions. One of the first things the […]
The city, county and state need to end the homeless-housing lunacy; renounce the failed “housing first” paradigm; and support an independent audit of where...
