President Trump signed two executive orders Monday slashing nearly 3 million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, reversing Biden-era expansions and reigniting a decades-long battle over presidential authority under the Antiquities Act.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Monday the federal immigration officer who fatally shot a man in Maine did so out of fear for “public safety.” The department wrote on X that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were conducting “targeted surveillance on the last known address” of an undocumented migrant in Biddeford, Maine,...
The defense ministry of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said Monday Iranian forces targeted a pair of its tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, killing one crew member. The UAE Ministry of Defence wrote on social platform X Iranian cruise missiles hit the country’s Mombasa and Al Bahiyah tankers, which were transiting the southern lane...
Few public policy issues divide Americans as deeply as laws regulating gun ownership or the recreational use of marijuana. Yet, last week, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in United States v. Hemani, a case in which unlawful drug use collided with the right to keep and bear arms. This rare showing of unity […]
President Donald Trump is presenting the Iran negotiations as proof that U.S. and Israeli military pressure worked. In contrast, Iran is leveraging its survival of that military campaign, claiming it entered negotiations on its own terms. Iran’s contention is the more accurate one. The truth? The Trump administration used force against Iran, raised expectations of […]
Mikhail Gorbachev never intended to liquidate the Soviet empire. Perestroika and glasnost were meant to rescue a bankrupt ideology and a moribund economy after the West’s relentless pressure exposed communism’s hollowness. Instead, they hastened the empire’s unraveling. The system collapsed not because Gorbachev hated it, but because his reforms could not save what ideology and […]
At times, a boxing match is not won when punches are being traded, but in the pauses between them. For the casual observer, nothing appears to be happening. The crowd grows restless, awaiting results, while the fighters circle one another, catch their breath, study reactions, assess damage, and reset their footing. Yet seasoned fighters understand […]
A flu outbreak has torn through the basic training wing at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, sickening more than 220 recruits and raising hard questions about War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision, less than two months earlier, to drop the requirement that all troops get a flu shot. The outbreak hit the 37th Training […]
At a moment when people seem to disagree on almost everything, there is an encouraging surprise beneath the headlines: We have not given up on one another. As our nation approaches its 250th birthday, many are taking stock of the republic we have inherited, and they are voicing concern. A new NBC News national survey, […]
Tuesday’s primaries were the coming-out party of DINOs: Democrats in name only. Any real Democrats not in a state of shock or terror are not paying attention. For the party is no longer theirs, and there’s probably nothing they can do about it. They didn’t lose it exactly but gave it away. Stupidly, they pretended […]
Britain has just dispatched its sixth prime minister in a decade, and is about to get its seventh. The country that used to be held up as a model of grown-up political stability is suddenly looking rather Mediterranean. The Economist started it in 2022, when Liz Truss was ousted, with its “Welcome to Britaly” front […]
Democratic Party candidates who support socialized medicine, rent control, and wealth taxes winning primary elections are, unfortunately, no longer breaking news. After all, the Democratic Socialists of America already control New York, Chicago, and Seattle and are poised to win Los Angeles and Washington, too. What is new, however, is the slate of anti-American, pro-Islamic […]
TRUMP’S MIDTERMS: TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK. With midterm elections just a few months away, a 36-hour period on Tuesday and Wednesday gave the political world a good picture of President Donald Trump‘s approach to campaigning for Republicans with the House and Senate at stake and the clock running down. Call it two steps […]
