Customs and Border Protection officers manning the cargo lines at John F. Kennedy International Airport felt there might be something fishy about a shipment arriving from Hong Kong.
Only Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio boast positive net favorability among a dozen American political figures, according to a new poll.
Kathy Hochul is treating America to her famously fatuous bluster over the Texas redistricting plan, which she absurdly calls a “declaration of war on the...
The arrest of an NFL veteran is showcasing just how incoherent and unjust California‘s gun control regime is. Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Denzel Perryman was pulled over on his way to a gun range by Los Angeles County Sheriff deputies, who found rifles in his car that violate California law. He spent the weekend in jail, but he is not going […]
When debating current issues, it’s helpful to avoid inaccurate depictions of past policy, especially on immigration, in which both opponents and advocates of President Donald Trump’s policies have views based on not altogether accurate renditions of the past. Many opponents of Trump’s policies seem to believe the president wants to cut off legal immigration altogether: […]
ON THE DEMOCRATIC PROTESTS IN TEXAS AND NEBRASKA. You’ve seen reports about the unpopularity of the Democratic Party these days — stories with headlines such as “Democrats Get Lowest Rating From Voters in 35 Years.” It’s true: Large numbers of voters disapprove of the party and, even though they don’t love Republicans either, trust the […]
Turkey is riding high. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump is paying dividends as the Trump administration seeks to fast-track the sale of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to Turkey. Turkey’s arms industry, run by the president’s son-in-law, reverse engineers military technology and makes billions of dollars, often selling drones and […]
Sometimes in the age of social media and nonstop news, it can seem like there’s, in the words of my late Grandma Betty, “a devil behind every bush.” This, statistically, is untrue. But the increased jubilation over such dangers to the average citizen is bloodcurdling. On Monday, a disturbed individual went into a Park Avenue […]
America has an alcohol problem, and it’s not what you think. It’s time to save the internal combustion engine by expanding beyond the single form we currently use for fuel. In sync with President Donald Trump’s efforts to boost U.S. auto production, it is time to embrace methanol, not ethanol, as a car fuel alternative […]
A reader coming across the new book Good Ideas and Power Moves: Ten Lessons for Success from Taylor Swift might be excused for thinking it’s a bit of fluff. It seems like a cash grab by author Sinead O’Sullivan, a mash note to a pop star with some life advice tossed in. However, Good Ideas […]
As a particle physicist, I’m interested in the fundamental laws of nature and questions connected to the origin of the universe. My field grew out of the same intellectual soil that produced the field of atomic research, decisively pushed forward by the Manhattan Project. Arguably, entering the race to develop atomic weapons was necessary and […]
President Donald Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday after the July Employment Situation report revised May and June payroll estimates down by more than 250,000 jobs total. Trump is a businessman who is used to paying for good data, and so he understandably was flummoxed by the BLS’s consistently overestimating […]
