Opinion

You can always tell when the White House knows it has a problem, when its allies are turning against it, and it has an awkward proposition to sell: It sends out the vice president. “All right. Good morning, everybody. Nothing to talk about,” a beaming JD Vance said as he hopped onto the podium of […]

American taxpayers should not bankroll refugee camps that Iranian-backed terrorists have turned into operational sanctuaries.  Since 1950, Washington has poured more than $7.3 billion into sustaining Palestinian refugee camps, with the largest share supporting Gaza operations. Certainly, this has subsidized the geography of permanent conflict: camps that Arab governments refuse to solve, terrorists exploit, and […]

While President Donald Trump wages the most aggressive U.S. crackdown on drug cartels in nearly 40 years, his daughter and son-in-law are set to inject hundreds of millions of dollars into the illegal drug trade. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are not stupid people. While support for criminality is presumably not their intent, they are […]

President Donald Trump declared at the Group of Seven summit in France that his deal with Iran would bring peace and stability.  Markets cheered. European leaders applauded. The White House presented the agreement as a diplomatic triumph. History has heard this speech before. In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich waving an […]

Gov. Dan McKee (D-RI) could sign a three-year ban on new charter schools to appease unions, or he could side with the families he promised to protect five years ago. He has three days left to decide. But the governor may capitulate. McKee wants unions’ help for his perilous reelection campaign. Unions’ public support, lobbying, […]

The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. June 18, 1776 General George Washington has persuaded Joseph Reed […]

Across the West, a wave of parties branded “far-right,” “xenophobic,” and “nativist” is on the rise. Their entire appeal rests on one promise: reversing the sorry state of immigration. But even this is largely a fiction — carefully curated by a hostile press and, funnily enough, by the parties themselves. They are far less anti-migrant […]

As we mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, our historical memory naturally favors the loudest, most immediate demonstrations of 1776. We celebrate the public readings in city squares, the ringing of bells, and the toppling of King George III’s statue in New York. Yet the most enduring lesson for a country once […]

Peter St. Onge’s May 11 essay “How Trump’s tariffs can paradoxically raise economic freedom” is a case study in wishcasting. It imagines a world in which President Donald Trump wielded strategic tariffs to pressure other countries to open their markets to the United States. But instead of targeted reciprocal tariffs, Trump imposed an inexplicable mix […]

Janeese Lewis George secured victory in Tuesday’s Washington, D.C., Democratic mayoral primary. Her success positions Washington to install its first socialist mayor. The Ward 4 councilwoman trumped challenger Kenyan McDuffie by a significant margin. In a city where the Democratic primary effectively decides the office holder, Lewis George is nearly certain to become the next […]

Janeese Lewis George, an avowed socialist and proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America, took a commanding lead in Washington, D.C.’s Democratic primary Tuesday night, all but guaranteeing she will be the next mayor of the nation’s capital. As radical as Lewis George’s socialist policies are, however, they should not be thought of as […]