When we return to work after the Labor Day weekend, the hope is that America will start paying attention to the stark choice offered at the midterm elections in...
An armed assailant lunged at the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, Amy Acton, on Sunday during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, injuring several people, campaign officials said.
President Trump on Sunday posted a map of New Mexico labeled "New America" following the spread of a since-debunked online hoax claiming he had signed an executive order renaming the state. The map Trump shared on Truth Social showed a large "X" over "Mexico" in the state's name, with the word "America" labeled below it....
At least five people are dead following an Amazon cargo plane crash at Miami International Airport (MIA), Miami-Dade County officials confirmed Sunday afternoon. The airplane overran the airport's runway at around 2 p.m., according to airport officials. The fatal crash initially caused a complete ground stop at MIA, though two of its four runways are...
Friends, As a member in good standing of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, I am simply appalled by our beloved organization’s resolution declaring the conflict in Gaza a “genocide.” Our elite association of academics, researchers, and randos, which costs upward of $125 to join yearly, has allowed its once-sterling reputation to be forever tainted. […]
President Donald Trump made a claim on Tuesday that should raise red flags for every person in the country. He called out Chicago for its horrifying number of homicides each year. As usual, Democrats rebuked Trump’s comments. They categorized them as unnecessary, hyperbolic, and untrue. They said Trump’s comments were divisive. They did everything possible […]
The best, most concise statement of how people ought to think about Israel came from veteran national security reporter and analyst Eli Lake on Friday when he told me on my program that the world needs to understand the Jewish state as an “intelligence superpower.” Lake is the equal of any American reporter assessing U.S.-Israel […]
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. Wednesday’s military parade in China garnered international media attention. Held […]
Each year, Americans are passengers on the same political train wreck. Instead of Congress doing its main job of passing annual budgets, we get incremental, temporary extensions of what we are already doing. Called continuing resolutions, these funding stopgaps put us on autopilot, wasting an average of four months and 8% of our buying power every year. […]
As someone who represented New York in Congress and worked closely with both Main Street and Wall Street, I know firsthand how important it is to balance innovation with responsibility. New York is home to the world’s financial capital, and decisions about how we regulate digital assets have ripple effects that go far beyond Wall […]
In 2008, the tea party was born in opposition to Washington’s bailout of Wall Street. Those bailouts were sold as one-time responses to an emergency, yet they became a blueprint for deeper federal entanglement in private markets. Now, less than two decades later and with no crisis underway, the Trump administration is not only bailing […]
President Donald Trump does not have the power to fire Federal Reserve governors at will, as he does members of the National Labor Relations Board. But he has fired governor Lisa Cook for cause, which is allowed under statute, alleging she made false statements on a mortgage application in 2021. The evidence that Cook made […]
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. I’m not in the prediction business. But I do enjoy history. […]
The world’s birth rate is just about equal to, or possibly even below, the level at which the human population will hold steady — right about 2.1 babies per woman. The United States’s birth rate has been falling for 18 years, is at a record low, and is still falling. Fewer children exist in the […]
