Opinion

“America is the genesis of what we call settler colonialism,” Mahmood Mamdani, the father of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, once told an audience, explaining that Abraham Lincoln “generalized the solution of reservations” and inspired the Nazis, who apparently learned from the American president that genocide was “doable” and that you can “differentiate […]

The employees of the Department of Homeland Security and officers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement are making America great again. They never receive the necessary or appropriate recognition for making communities safer and protecting the country’s citizens. First, they had risked their lives by being in harm’s way when apprehending violent criminals. Now, they risk […]

WOODLAWN, Maryland — There is a pattern in the Trump administration that if you are very good at the first job you are appointed to, you are likely to get another one, something more challenging than the first. It’s been true for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is also the acting national security adviser […]

As the New York City mayoral race looms, some conservatives are rooting for socialist Democrat Zohran Mamdani to win it. It is a dangerous folly to do so.  The reflexes of politicians seek every advantage. They love it when the opposing party picks a radical. The logic for conservatives is that if Mamdani is chosen […]

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Sitting at a café in Dahieh, the southern suburb and Hezbollah stronghold of the Lebanese capital, is to witness the decline in Hezbollah’s fortunes. Women gossip and children are oblivious, but look around, and some men are missing fingers or eyes, the legacy of holding a sabotaged beeper. Hezbollah is still a […]

As university administrators escalate their opposition to the Trump administration‘s oversight, funding reductions, and executive actions related to campus diversity, equity, inclusion, and illegal immigration, they appear to be overlooking a critical precedent: it was former President Barack Obama who introduced the framework for aggressive federal intervention through more than 20 controversial Dear Colleague letters […]

Argentina‘s voters wisely reelected and strengthened President Javier Milei’s Liberty Advances party this weekend rather than switching to the socialist Peron alternative in the middle of his term of office. It is a decision that sets the country on a clearer path to prosperity while other leftist governments in the region continue to struggle. With […]

The new $200 million White House ballroom being built by President Donald Trump is going to be used for elegant dinners featuring dignified foreign leaders. It should also be used for dancing.  The president should hold regular dances where Americans can gather to swing, salsa, zydeco, and even rave. In the midst of increased atomization […]

In this world, nothing is certain except that the next Republican presidential hopeful will be “scarier” than the last.  This is one of the most frequent narratives in modern political messaging. So frequent, in fact, that it has become nearly as predictable as flu season, only drearier and with less charm.  You can practically set […]

Filmmaker Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, an adaptation of Warren Zanes’s book, opens on a sweaty, spent Bruce Springsteen in 1982 as he’s backstage, catching his breath after another herculean three-hour set, the kind that had already become legend on this tour. Up to that point, Springsteen’s career had followed a jagged, uncertain climb. The […]

Pollsters expected a rejection of the anarcho-capitalist Argentinian President Javier Milei’s party, La Libertad Avanza, in Sunday’s midterm elections. Instead, the economist of the Austrian School turned politician’s coalition cleaned house, winning 41% of the national vote and doubling their representation in Congress. With this stunning victory, Milei has a clear mandate to expand his libertarian economic reforms that aim to […]