Xavier Becerra has decided that the race for governor is in the bag. So he’s not offering policy details, or promises, that anyone might use to hold him accountable...
The Log Cabin Republicans, the nation's largest group representing gay conservatives, have stopped supporting transgender people, dropping the T from what they called their "LGBT advocacy organization."
Last week, President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to reduce America’s dependence on foreign mineral suppliers. The military must now map vulnerable supply chains and shift them toward domestic and allied sources. The next day, the Interior Department acknowledged a critical problem jeopardizing that strategy: Much of the country still lacks the data needed to […]
President Donald Trump has recently boosted tariffs against some Canadian exports to the U.S. to the 50% level, something unprecedented, even for him. He has done so, in part, as a reaction to smoke inundating the United States from Canadian forest fires. The New York Times, and who would know better on this matter, indeed, […]
During a meeting last week, the Food and Drug Administration’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee recommended that six previously restricted peptides be made available for pharmacy compounding. Peptides are short chains of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Compounding is the preparation of customized medications for individual patients rather than the dispensing of conventionally manufactured, […]
My grandmother had an expression for almost everything. Whenever I stood over the stove impatiently waiting for water to boil, she’d smile and say, “A watched pot never boils.” As a child, I thought she was talking about cooking. Years later, I realized she was talking about something much bigger. She understood that constant interference […]
Lindsey Graham’s last moments were emblematic of the way he lived: in service. On his final Friday, he stood in Kyiv beside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and announced that the White House had agreed to advance his Russia sanctions bill. The next night, an aortic dissection killed him at 71. After the funeral on Tuesday, […]
Southwest Border Patrol apprehensions in January 2026 were 79% lower than in the same month a year earlier, while total encounters at and between ports of entry along that border fell 84%. By April, Border Patrol was averaging 298 apprehensions per day. Those are substantial changes. They are also enforcement outputs rather than complete measures […]
A Rochester, Minnesota, jury spent nine hours this month deciding whether a woman who screamed a racial slur into a stranger’s phone camera had committed a crime. Shiloh Hendrix walked on the count tied to the boy she’d cursed at and was convicted on the count tied to the man who filmed her. She now […]
Last week, the Ohio Conference of Teamsters endorsed Sherrod Brown for the U.S. Senate in 2026. Not a surprise for anyone who has been paying attention to how union leadership actually operates. But for Republicans wondering if the organization represents something new in American labor politics, this endorsement of Brown says more than two years […]
Every visitor entering the headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Arlington, Virginia, encounters two powerful reminders of why the agency exists. The first is impossible to ignore. Stretching across a prominent wall is the “Faces of Fentanyl” memorial — thousands of photographs of smiling Americans, many of them teenagers and young adults. Beneath each […]
Good policy, it is said, makes for good politics. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and his Senate GOP colleagues find themselves in a serendipitous moment, having before them a tremendous opportunity to serve the nation’s interests while simultaneously benefiting their party’s narrower political interests. What is the opportunity? Simple — stay in Washington until […]
For years, Hungary inspired conservatives around the world. Under former Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the country demonstrated that a nation could defend its borders, preserve its sovereignty, and resist the ideological pressure coming from anti-freedom forces. I witnessed that spirit firsthand when I spoke at CPAC Hungary in 2025. Today, Americans are watching Hungary with […]
Before Congress, I proudly worked with federal and state law enforcement to prosecute illegal immigrant criminals and dismantle transnational criminal networks here in our country. That experience provided me a unique, even harrowing, view of the illegal immigration problem in the United States. The harms are more deep and diverse than most realize, and when […]
