The Success Academy's just-released report on New York City public-school failure is so shocking and troubling that even anti-charter-school teachers unions should be shaking in horror.
Sometimes, the old maxim holds true: The third time really is the charm. With Wake Up Dead Man, filmmaker Rian Johnson delivers the strongest and most compelling entry in his Knives Out series yet — a confident return to form after the clumsy, overwritten contrivances of Glass Onion. A whodunit is only as effective as the impetus that sets it […]
Democrats continue to live in a fantastical world where they claim they do not want Hamas in power in Gaza but oppose any and all measures of actually removing them from power before granting the Palestinians their own state. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) decided to use the terrorist attack against Jews in Australia to defend the “two-state […]
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. Does any Jewish person outside of Israel feel completely safe celebrating […]
The tragedy of the Bondi Beach massacre of Australian Jewish people celebrating Hanukkah is that it is the tragedy everyone saw coming. Some Jews came to Australia in the late 18th century and trickled in fleeing Russia’s pogroms before World War II, but the bulk of Australian Jewry dates to the Holocaust. Polish Jews settled […]
After the Port Arthur mass shooting of 1996, during which 35 people were murdered and 23 wounded in the deadliest massacre in modern Australian history, Australia enforced what was celebrated by anti-gun advocates as the gold standard of gun laws, “among the most stringent — and effective — in the world,” as the Guardian put […]
The longest government shutdown in history ended on Nov. 12, 2025, 43 days after the Democrats first refused to vote to fund the government based on concerns over expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies. All Americans were held hostage by this fight over the ACA, despite the fact that fewer than 10% rely on the ACA […]
U.S. Trade Representative Jameison Greer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick traveled to Brussels recently to meet with their counterparts to finalize the trade deal framework announced over the summer. While the outline of the deal remains promising, our European allies are thinly masking their latest attempt to target U.S. companies with regulatory complexity in hopes […]
The murder of 16 people at a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney‘s Bondi Beach was not the only violence committed by Islamists last weekend. An ISIS member murdered two Iowa National Guard members in Syria, and Muslims attacked a Hanukkah concert in Amsterdam. Meanwhile, in Germany, five men, all Muslim migrants, were arrested after plotting to […]
