Negotiations between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran have broken down, as always seemed inevitable, and military action has resumed. Instead of restraining Israel, the Trump administration should use its ally’s military prowess to its advantage in the continuing conflict. On April 8, the White House announced that a ceasefire brokered by […]
Whether you opt for President Donald Trump’s doctrine of Peace through Strength or the timeless words of Teddy Roosevelt: “Speak softly and carry a big stick,” wars are often won long before a shot is fired. As our nation’s resolve is tested constantly on multiple continents, America must always be prepared for any scenario that […]
Try a small thought experiment. Suppose you were setting out to design a country that bred lots of terrorists. How would you go about it? You would need old animosities, of course, but there are plenty of places in the world that offer those. The key thing, I suggest, would be to prevent any commercial […]
Martin Suarez opens his dramatic account of his life as an undercover FBI special agent assigned to infiltrate Colombian drug cartels from 1988 to 1994, Inside the Cartel: How An Undercover FBI Agent Smuggled Cocaine, Laundered Cash and Dismantled a Colombian Narco Empire, with the August 1994 attempt on his life. “The assassin pointed his […]
With his tall, thin body and his long arms and legs, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) looked more like a bag of bones than a world-famous Scottish author. It was his eyes, though, which suggested his literary genius. His friend Mark Twain called them “Stevenson’s special distinction and commanding feature.” His wife, Fanny, said, “Behind them, […]
In the time between the release of Midnights, her October 2022 mega-blockbuster, and Dec. 8, 2024, when the “Eras Tour” closed in Vancouver, Taylor Swift achieved a level of success beyond what nearly any sane human mind could process. Just as anyone with a normative experience of reality cannot not know what it’s like to […]
Years ago, I met a fellow veteran at a promotion event for one of my novels. The man suffered from traumatic brain injury, sustained in an improvised explosive device attack on his vehicle during his deployment to Iraq. Due to his injury, he wore one of those soft helmets, and he misunderstood basic social cues. […]
For mostly happy reasons, I have spent the past 10 years moving into smaller and smaller living quarters. When I tell people this, they either look at me sadly and think Poor guy is going through some bad stuff, or they brighten and loudly say something like, That’s so great! I wish I could do […]
On Aug. 15, 1824, as the summer sun sank over New York Harbor, a huge crowd pressed against the wharves, straining for a glimpse of the Cadmus. Church bells rang out as the ship eased into view, and on its deck stood the figure they had all come to see: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de […]
When screenwriter, playwright, television scenarist, and denouncer of leftist pieties and prejudices Paddy Chayefsky wrote the movie Network in 1976, he made television seem awfully small. Here was a film, released by that most forward-looking of studios, United Artists, with A-list movie stars (Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall) and several bona fide screen legends (William Holden, […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent must demand that it scrap its pointless climate targets — and redirect its attention to its true objective: lifting poor...
One year ago last Friday, former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nearly nine years in prison after being convicted for breaching her own election offices in the heart of Colorado’s Trump Country. Now the 70-year-old is pleading for release from prison, claiming she’s broke even as a new Florida-based legal team and revamped […]
