Two U.S. Navy aviators ejected while landing on USS Dwight D. Eisenhower off the coast of Virginia, and four sailors aboard were also injured in the mishap.
On the night of Aug. 4, an employee at Leipzig/Halle Airport in eastern Germany found a drone carrying an explosive device inside the secured cargo area, beside the southern runway. It was sitting next to an Antonov Airlines cargo aircraft — the Ukrainian carrier that flies military supplies. Federal police brought in a bomb-disposal robot […]
On July 27, a regulation took effect in Brussels whose only real purpose was to postpone a different European law due to apply six days later. The law being postponed is the AI Act, passed in 2024 and sold to the world as the first comprehensive rulebook for artificial intelligence. The rescue is Regulation (EU) […]
ARE MIDTERM RESULTS ALREADY BAKED IN THE CAKE? President Donald Trump will gather Republicans in a rare midterm convention starting Wednesday in Dallas. It’s a chance, GOP organizers hope, to fire up voters and reset a campaign in which Republicans appear to be trailing in several key races. It’s reasonable that Republicans would want to do […]
The New York Times and The Washington Post recently published investigations built on some 150 leaked documents, photographs, and intercepted messages from inside the Sudanese Armed Forces. The picture is chilling: a program, launched in mid-2024, to build chlorine bombs; a stockpile of roughly 290 munitions at Merowe air base; indications that more than 100 […]
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) is entitled to his political conclusions. He isn’t entitled to his own version of history. When history complicates the argument, Americans deserve the complicated history — not just the convenient half. That matters because some of Lieu’s most effective arguments are not built on outright falsehoods. Sometimes the facts are true. […]
The 2023 military coup in Gabon ended more than 50 years of Bongo family rule. After years of corruption and disputed elections, the coup gave the Gabonese people hope that they could begin a new chapter. The political transition also created an opportunity to boost U.S. engagement with the country where China has established a […]
The White House’s reported plot to redirect funding from the Child Care and Development Block Grant subsidies for working parents to families with one stay-at-home parent is best understood as an 11th-hour political ploy to bolster Republicans’ odds in the midterm elections, but a gambit that is unlikely to stand up in court. Because the […]
President Donald Trump’s drug pricing policy has two China blind spots. The first is that Washington is pressing other developed economies to pay what it calls their fair share for pharmaceutical innovation, while China remains largely outside that burden-sharing effort, even as Chinese drug developers increasingly benefit from the high-priced American market through licensing and […]
The Russia-Ukraine war has reached a new technological level where combat operations are increasingly shifting to the realm of unmanned systems, and the majority of strikes — at both the tactical and operational-strategic levels — are carried out using attack drones and missiles. The protracted nature of the war and its intensity have created a […]
On a Tuesday morning in March, a curious wave of enthusiasm rolled across social media. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani had just canceled a $9 million McKinsey contract, and within hours, comedians, operatives, and parenting influencers were all praising the move in strikingly similar language. It looked like an organic consensus. It was choreography. […]
Alternative für Deutschland’s electoral victory this weekend in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt is serving as a sharp wake-up call for the country’s ruling...
The decision to use the vast military and economic power of the United States to destroy Iran’s ability to terrorize and intimidate its neighbors in the Middle East is by far the most consequential choice of President Donald Trump’s six years in office. Trump did fundamentally alter the future course of the U.S. Supreme Court […]
Oren Cass, founder and chief economist of American Compass, a Washington think tank, describes himself as a right-of-center conservative. In reality, his economic views align far more closely with those of the far left. In a Substack essay last week, Cass reiterates his support for President Donald Trump’s tariff regime, arguing that protectionism will spark a […]
