When a patient walks into a local medical clinic, they assume the person making the decisions about their care is the physician wearing the white coat. Increasingly, that assumption is dead wrong. Behind the scenes, the person calling the shots is a corporate bean-counter working for a massive, vertically integrated insurance cartel thousands of miles […]
On Sept. 25, 1789, Congress sent the states a package of proposed constitutional amendments. The freedoms to speak, assemble, publish, and petition were enshrined in what became the First Amendment. That anniversary is now celebrated on Sept. 25 as First Amendment Day, which passed just last week. The holiday is a powerful reminder of one […]
The “great awokening” that began in the mid-2010s and peaked sometime late in the Biden administration by most measures seems to have largely receded — and with it the progressive fetishes of diversity, equity, and inclusion and gender ideology. Hence, it has become easy to roll one’s eyes at these ideologies as risible features of […]
As a researcher who has spent more than two decades studying counterterrorism and radical Islamist organizations in the Middle East, I want to address the Department of Homeland Security directly — and its new secretary, who understands the nature of the regime ruling Iran. The threat posed by the Islamic Republic on American soil is […]
President Donald Trump’s most-favored-nation drug policy was always going to do more than change prices. It was going to change behavior. Game theory asks a simple question: When one player changes the rewards and penalties, how will the others respond? Change the rules, and you cannot assume everyone will keep playing the same way. That […]
Politicians and the public often discuss military and veterans’ healthcare as if they are a single entity. They are not. The Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs operate two entirely separate, siloed bureaucratic networks. While both face severe staffing shortages and crushing backlogs, they are failing our service members in fundamentally distinct […]
In July 1944, weeks before she was arrested, Anne Frank wrote one of the most hopeful sentences to emerge from history’s darkest chapter: “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” Months later, she was dead at Bergen-Belsen. She was 15. For 80 years, the world has remembered her. […]
From the outside, there was no mistaking where I was. I was walking into Cypress Baptist Church in Louisiana, led by Pastor John Fream. The moment I stepped inside, something felt unexpectedly familiar. Israeli and American flags stood side by side on every table. The room carried the same unmistakable love for Israel that I […]
The war with Iran is teaching America an old lesson we should already know — air power can destroy, but it cannot occupy, control, or impose a lasting political settlement. I learned that lesson during two combat tours in Vietnam and again during the 1990–91 Gulf War. Technology has changed dramatically since then; however, the […]
The Navy announced recently that it is creating a new Robotic and Autonomous Systems Warfighting Development Center at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story. This month, the War Department added ChatGPT and Grok to GenAI.mil alongside Gemini. The Defense Information Systems Agency’s fiscal 2026 technology watchlist, meanwhile, places agentic AI and AI-augmented software engineering in […]
Just two weeks after President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner left Kyiv, calling their talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “very meaningful,” Russia is investing in the industrial infrastructure to sustain a war that Washington is trying to end. The contrast deserves more attention. The Sept. 6 meeting was part of the […]
Thursday night’s White House state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping brought together some of America’s most powerful corporate leaders. Their presence reflected an enduring wager: that access to China’s enormous market remains a prize worth courting Beijing to obtain. During President Donald Trump’s May visit to Beijing, Xi declared that China’s door would “only […]
With the November 2026 midterm elections quickly approaching, candidates across the country are once again delivering slick soundbites on healthcare affordability. But while politicians treat healthcare like a convenient campaign talking point, everyday Americans are making grueling choices at the kitchen table. Fresh national polling from Patients Come First reveals a sobering reality: Nearly nine […]
The Kremlin may have discovered the perfect election strategy: eliminate the possibility of losing. Why bother with opposition or the unpredictability of a free vote when you can simply remove the competition? Russia’s first parliamentary election since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion had all the familiar trappings of democracy, such as ballots, polling stations, […]
