Hung Cao, a retired Navy captain and special operations veteran, has led the Department of the Navy for four months as President Trump now seeks Senate confirmation.
FOR DEMOCRATIC CONTENDERS, IRAN WAR PRESENTS OPPORTUNITY AND RISK. According to the RealClearPolitics average of polls, the top five contenders for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination are former vice president and 2024 nominee Kamala Harris, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. All of them were […]
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. California has a wealth of advantages compared to other states. […]
The Congressional Budget Office has released its annual Budget and Economic Outlook for 2026 to 2036, and once again, CBO and the media are blaming the nation’s deficit problem on Republican tax cuts. However, the 172-page report shows very clearly that higher spending, and not lower taxes, is the main reason for the rising deficits and […]
President Donald Trump’s statement explaining the military strikes he ordered on Iran detailed how the Iranian regime has “waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder targeting the United States” for 47 years. Forty-seven years. That is a long time. But why strike now? The answer is not nuclear weapons. Trump destroyed their nuclear […]
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the so-called supreme leader of Iran, is dead. So too are at least 40 senior Iranian regime officials, all of whom were killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic. It was a deserved and nearly inevitable end to a regime that created the greatest terrorist state on the planet. […]
In New York City, champagne socialist talking points are starting to meet real-world consequences. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is now floating the idea of a 10% property tax increase to fund his social programs and plug a looming budget hole. The city he leads is already the most expensive place to live in the country, with families everywhere still trying to catch up to higher costs. […]
Self-destructive fits of society-wide insanity follow a multi-step process, and the travel time from an outlandish idea to liberal status quo is a mere...
As the clerical regime in Tehran faces a deepening crisis of legitimacy, a familiar figure has reemerged in Western policy debates: Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late shah. To some in Washington, he appears to offer a ready-made alternative to the current system. But for many Iranians, particularly Kurds, Balochs, and Azeris, the prospect […]
