Just a few short weeks ago, on May 15, nearly 50 preschool children were kidnapped by gunmen from schools in Northeastern Nigeria. That same day, gunmen attacked three schools in the Oriire district and abducted 46 people: 39 students, aged 2 to 16, and seven teachers. The attackers reportedly planted improvised explosive devices to deter […]
The federal government should put an end to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA. It has long connived at Islamist terrorism against Israel and has, to put it mildly, long been an impediment to peace. In a May 18 letter, U.S. Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and 23 of their […]
In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. New York magazine recently published an overwrought essay penned by […]
On a train crossing from the Polish border into Ukraine, Hasidic pilgrims fill the carriages: men in black coats and wide-brimmed hats. Thirty thousand to 40,000 Hasidic Jews converge each Rosh Hashanah in Uman, undeterred by air raid sirens, to pray at the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. But all is not well in […]
The University of California at Los Angeles got caught threatening to punish conservative students after its event was disrupted by liberal agitators. UCLA has since walked that threat back, but it is proof that universities will not let their woke politics die easily. The UCLA Federalist Society chapter held an event with Department of Homeland […]
President Donald Trump is currently considering a bailout or partial nationalization of the floundering budget airline Spirit Airlines. The president’s instinct to intervene is the same instinct that led Spirit down the path that resulted in two bankruptcies in 2024 and 2025. In 2023, President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice sued to block the proposed […]
To borrow a great line from the movie Under Siege 2, “Assumption is the mother of all f*** ups.” Russian President Vladimir Putin assumed that launching the war on Ukraine in February 2022 would lead to a rapid and decisive Russian victory. He was wrong. As Russia fails to make substantive progress in that war […]
Not only did Qatar gin up the International Criminal Court’s lawless prosecution of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged “war crimes,” the Arab...
May is mental health awareness month, a time dedicated to raising awareness, normalizing help-seeking, and reducing stigma surrounding mental health. Those efforts matter, but they are simply not enough. If we are serious about saving lives, we need to change the way we think about suicide prevention. For someone in the depths of suicidal thoughts, […]
One would never know it by the collective silence of legacy media reports in the United States, but a French nun was brutally attacked in Jerusalem earlier this week. The attack, and subsequent U.S. legacy media silence, comes as attacks against Christians have become more frequent, yet go largely unreported, especially compared to reports of […]
In 1869, the first-ever American transcontinental railroad was completed at Promontory Summit, then in the Utah Territory. Passengers and cargo from the industrial cities of the Northeast could make the steam-powered one-week journey toward the West Coast, stretching the American frontier and settling the West. Nearly 160 years later, highway systems and airplanes have taken […]
Earlier this year, as parents across the United States filed their taxes, a serious question kept coming up at kitchen tables: Why are we paying into an education system that no longer reflects our values, and then struggling to afford the education we actually want for our children? That question deserves an honest answer. The […]
President Donald Trump has set high expectations for Iraq’s newly designated prime minister, Ali al Zaidi, expectations that reflect Washington’s long-standing hope for a stable, reliable partner in Baghdad. But Iraq’s reality is far more complicated. In Iraq, leadership is not just about capability — it is about constraint. And those constraints are built into the […]
The Strait of Hormuz is closed, and Iranian officials are reportedly begging Washington to reopen it. Beijing has tightened its grip on rare earths. And Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is raising $100 billion through Project Prometheus to buy the American manufacturers whose production lines depend on both. Three crises. One vulnerability. And a solution sitting […]
Democrats keep learning the hard way that what goes around comes around. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) changed voting rules in 2017 so Democrats couldn’t filibuster Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court. He did the same for future Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. This helped President Donald Trump promote three originalist […]
