Opinion

Employment is up since President Donald Trump took office. But the surface numbers actually hide just how good the Trump economy has been for American workers. Overall, the number of employed people in the United States has increased by 1.5 million since January of this year. But that topline number includes both foreign-born and American-born […]

For the first time since 2005, the federal budget posted a surplus this June, and Uncle Sam has President Donald Trump‘s tariffs at least partially to thank. The budget surplus of $26 billion is essentially a rounding error relative to our current annual deficit of $1.3 trillion for the first nine months of fiscal 2025. […]

The gender gap, we’re informed by some of the best polling analysts in the business, is bigger than ever. Ever, in this case, means since the election of 1980, when men were more willing than women to vote for Ronald Reagan and oust Jimmy Carter. That spurred political journalists to emit multiple articles examining just […]

Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) government in Minnesota plans to discriminate in hiring with a new policy next month that requires “hiring justifications” if someone from a “non-underrepresented” group is hired. The policy is live on the Minnesota Department of Human Services website, having been issued on July 1 and taking effect on Aug. 12. It reads as follows: “Hiring supervisors must provide a hiring […]

Tamara Chergoleishvili, a politician from Georgia’s pro-Western Federalist Party, did not bother attending her court hearing last week. She already knew the outcome. The Tbilisi City Court fined her $1,500 for “insulting” two senior officials of the ruling Georgian Dream party on social media. Under legislative amendments rushed through Parliament in February, Georgians can now […]

On June 12, Afghan Special Immigrant Visa applicant Sayed Naser was arrested by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials outside an immigration courtroom in San Diego. Before Naser’s arrest, government officials motioned to dismiss his asylum case. Naser’s arrival in the United States came on the heels of years of fear and uncertainty following the […]

You may have noticed that for the last few months, talks of tariffs seem to have settled down. Of course, part of the driving force behind this comparative silence is that days feel like weeks, weeks feel like months, and months feel like years in our world of Trumpian news cycles, fueled by world-changing events […]

ADEN, Yemen — President Donald Trump accepts no diplomatic straitjacket. During his first term, he feted North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Sometimes, breaking diplomatic china pays off. Trump deserves credit for the Abraham Accords, even if the Nobel Committee’s blacklisting of the president will forever dash his […]

New York state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani didn’t just win his race — he crushed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo by 12 points. That wasn’t a fluke. It was a warning. A new political generation is rising, and if the rest of us keep laughing off their ideas without asking why they’re winning, we’ll keep losing. One […]

On July 1, the Trump administration announced a pause in specific United States weapons systems to Ukraine as part of a more exhaustive Pentagon review of U.S. munitions stockpiles. The suspension caught Europe and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by surprise. Lawmakers, including some in the Republican Party, were aghast that U.S. defense officials would throttle shipments, even […]

The European Union has a choice to make: It can either continue to be China’s de facto ally or show genuine strategic autonomy by confronting President Xi Jinping’s cynical exploitation.  The urgency of this choice was made clear by a meeting last week between China’s foreign policy chief, Wang Yi, and his EU counterpart, Kaja […]