Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) said she was troubled by social media posts that the leading Democrat in Maine’s Senate race made more than a decade ago about sexual assault. Last year, The Washington Post uncovered online comments that Graham Platner posted in 2013, in which the Democratic candidate downplayed the difficulties service members face when...
President Trump said on Saturday that he might pull even more U.S. military troops out of Germany, a threat that came one day after he ordered the Pentagon to withdraw approximately 5,000 service members from the country. “We are going to cut way down, and we’re cutting a lot further than 5,000,” Trump told reporters...
An attorney representing the Trump administration informed a U.S. District Court Friday evening that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has begun offering new appointments to disaster workers whose contracts the agency did not renew in January, reversing a controversial decision that prompted a coalition of labor unions, scientific groups and local governments to sue the administration.
The leader of the Czech Republic pushed back this week against President Trump’s accusations that Europe has failed to do its part to support the U.S.’s ongoing military operations against Iran. “I believe that Europe could do much more, but we are not part of it,” Czech President Petr Pavel told CNN’s Christine Amanpour at...
Liberal judges continue to distort the criminal justice system to reach their preferred policy goals or, as shown in a recent case in Baltimore, punish victims of crime who are not on their political team. The case in Baltimore is that of Patrick Brice, a 28-year-old man who beat two elderly men. Brice rushed and tackled the first man, and […]
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a U.S.-brokered peace agreement at the White House on Friday. This deal would have been unthinkable not long ago. For three decades, the conflict has defined the South Caucasus. It was mediated and manipulated by Russian diplomats, patrolled by Russian peacekeepers, and shaped by Russian interests. Now, Washington […]
There is no mass starvation in Gaza, deliberate or otherwise. There’s no genocide. There’s no ethnic cleansing. There is a war. Civilians suffer during wartime. Somewhere around 40 million noncombatants died during World War II. Around 2 million during the Vietnam War. It’s likely that hundreds of thousands of civilians perished during the Iraq War. […]
TRUMP — AND THE GOP — CAN DO A LOT TO FIGHT CRIME IN DC. News reports are filled with stories that President Donald Trump intends to “federalize” the District of Columbia. Few include the fact that the District is already federalized, and has been since its creation in 1791. Trump made the pledge after a former […]
Is it possible to build a big enough political coalition to prevent the election of a socialist mayor in an overwhelmingly Democratic city? That’s the test ahead of New York City voters in November. Early indications are that the answer is yes, but it won’t be easy. Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral nomination by […]
With the Armenian–Azerbaijani peace initiative meeting planned this Friday at the White House, the stakes for Armenia, the first nation to adopt Christianity as its religion in 301 A.D., cannot be any higher. The country is facing total annihilation at the hands of its Muslim neighbors, interested in recreating the Ottoman Empire and its own […]
The perpetually too-online Rep. Nancy Mace, who represents South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, has announced that she is running for the governorship of the Palmetto State. “This isn’t about playing defense, this is about going on offense for you — for your family, for your freedom, and for your future. … I wasn’t built to […]
When commercial transactions require consumers to adopt political ideologies to conduct business, everyone suffers — consumers, vendors, shareholders, and businesses alike. Stakeholder capitalism has long cloaked itself in the language of enlightened governance, promising to harmonize profit with social virtue and stakeholder well-being. Yet, on both sides of the Atlantic, citizens have begun to push […]
Politics has always been a scrappy arena — a relentless power struggle between two major parties, where one side inevitably tries to outmaneuver the other. It’s messy, competitive, and often cutthroat. Yet, for much of American history, most political players managed to operate within the bounds of decency, adhering to a shared sense of civility […]
Eighty years ago this month, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ushering in the Atomic Age and forever changing the world. For decades, the use of nuclear weapons has been controversial. But America’s decision, fateful as it was, saved lives and ended World War II. On August […]
In-N-Out stands above all competitors not only because of its quality but also because of its positive association with the state it calls home (Sorry, Texas, Whataburger just doesn’t compare). But that relationship is slowly dwindling, and the “In-N-Out” name might soon describe the chain’s time in California. In-N-Out was founded in California in 1948, becoming a West Coast […]
There’s usually a fun element to fictionalizing history. Imagine a world where Dwight Eisenhower shot Adolf Hitler to end World War II in place of the führer’s bunker suicide, or John Wilkes Booth being stopped by a good Samaritan who saved Abraham Lincoln’s life and allowed the 16th president to deliver on his promise of […]
PITTSBURGH — It should come as no surprise that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declined to be the next Federal Reserve chairman. Spend any time listening to Bessent talk, and it is clear he is laser-focused on one thing, something he can only accomplish in his current job: lifting America’s economy into a position where both […]
