Opinion

Hardworking Americans are feeling the strain of rising costs and mounting trade pressures on the tools they rely on every day. One essential piece of equipment, however, is too often overlooked: off-road utility vehicles, which power critical work across agriculture, energy production, emergency response, and more. Growing up on my family’s farm in Idaho, I […]

There are plenty of reasons to hate the social media companies. They erode our privacy, manipulate us through algorithms, and have fundamentally altered the norms governing human social interaction. Yet, one thing social media is probably not doing is making children and teenagers more anxious, depressed, or suicidal. Despite all the recent saber-rattling and attempts […]

A New York City nonprofit organization representing grocers is fighting back against Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-owned grocery store initiative.  Frank Garcia, the chairman of the Multicultural Business Coalition, told Spectrum News1 that the organization is considering a lawsuit to stop Mamdani outside of City Hall on May 29. Inside, Garcia attended a hearing with Jeanny […]

The Supreme Court will soon decide a case that could upend the balance built into a bipartisan law that has accelerated the launch of generic drugs and saved American patients, employers, and taxpayers trillions of dollars in recent decades  — while still incentivizing biopharmaceutical companies to research and develop medicines in the first place. The […]

Recently, U.S. Forces Korea Commander Gen. Xavier Brunson sparked a diplomatic row after describing South Korea as “the dagger in the heart of Asia” from China’s perspective. The Chinese Embassy in Seoul strongly criticized the remarks, stating they “crossed the line” and exhibited unnecessary belligerence. Later, also challenged by a Chinese delegate at the Shangri-La […]

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten complains that writing her newly released book “almost killed” her. But based on AFT’s own financial records, it’s the union members who suffered the actual injury. Hyperbolically titled, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers,” the book was published last September by an imprint of Penguin Random House and represents Weingarten’s […]

A not so long time ago, in a galaxy not so far, far away, the release of a new Star Wars movie would have been a major pop cultural event. It would have been the most anticipated film of the year, and showtimes on opening day would have sold out within minutes of going on […]

A recent report has found that the California Teachers Association, the state’s largest teachers union, has massively funded liberal and partisan political causes, far exceeding its counterparts in other states. All that union spending, however, has not helped improve student achievement. The report, issued by the national grassroots group Defending Education, which promotes quality non-political […]

The United States and its European allies face a growing critical minerals challenge, and Greenland’s government is making it harder to address. The Kvanefjeld rare earth deposit in southern Greenland, one of the world’s largest, remains stalled because of political decisions by Greenland’s semi-autonomous government. The timing is difficult to ignore. China is tightening its […]

Democratic performance antics around an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Newark, New Jersey, propelled a protest to a violent crisis and made my state the epicenter of a national fight between officers enforcing immigration law to protect the public and leftists rampaging in nightly riots designed to evoke terror. Now, the elite troopers […]

What’s been most shocking over the last nearly three years, since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, has been the willingness of people in positions of power and responsibility to accept and repeat obviously untrue claims about Israel and Jews. Now, at least the worst of those, the libel that Israel has committed genocide […]