President Donald Trump on Thursday named Adam Telle as the acting Army secretary following the departure of Dan Driscoll amid widespread reports of tensions with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Maryland voters will get to decide in November on a congressional redistricting amendment being pushed by Democrats as part of nationwide battle for control of the U.S. House in future elections.
With City Hall unable or unwilling to protect legitimate Canal Street businesses and the public from the scourge of unlicensed sidewalk merchants, somebody had...
Washington again finds itself in a government shutdown crisis. Obamacare, by contrast, is in a permanent state of crisis. This time, lawmakers can trade brinkmanship for genuine progress by fixing the broken economics of the Affordable Care Act. The ACA undeniably reduced the number of uninsured Americans. Roughly half of that gain came from Medicaid […]
While Congress remains shut down, the people have been left to fend for themselves, which is really nothing new; it’s been some time since the U.S. government actually solved issues Americans care about. Though the stock market continues to soar, many other economic signs continue to point towards a recession, and an increasing number of people […]
Honduras may appear as a small country in the Western Hemisphere, but the election on Nov. 30 carries outsize strategic weight. At stake is whether Honduras becomes a robust U.S. partner in hemispheric security and trade or drifts into strategic failure via external leverage and weak governance. The main candidate associated with continuity of the […]
China’s embargo on exports of key rare earth minerals poses a serious threat to the U.S. economy, defense capabilities, and technological edge. We rely on imports for strategic defense minerals, and China has cornered the market, controlling around 70% of rare earth mining and over 90% of processing and magnet production, which are indispensable for […]
Relying on human ingenuity to coexist with a changing climate, either warmer or cooler, and tending to long-recognized public health threats are the best ways to ensure the well-being of the planet and its inhabitants, according to an Australian physician and expert in climate and public health. “The ingenuity of Homo sapiens at adapting to […]
Parents don’t tolerate “But they do it, too” as an excuse from their children. What about when adults in positions of power use it? That was Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent‘s message last week when he told CNBC, “When you are facing a nonmarket economy like China, you have to exercise industrial policy.” He then announced price controls […]
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) continues to refuse cooperation with federal immigration law enforcement, and now three people are dead. Until he reverses course and directs state inspectors to enforce the Trump administration’s new, stringent commercial driver’s license regulations, expect more innocent people to be killed. Dashcam footage from Jashanpreet Singh’s semitruck is horrifying. The illegal […]
