A New York Times Saturday story had the headline on its reference box “Cuba Backs Elder Statesman,” when referring to America’s murder indictment of former Cuban president Raul Castro
The resurgence of Ebola in central Africa is prompting international concern, with health officials issuing urgent warnings and travel restrictions as an outbreak linked to the rare Bundibugyo strain spreads. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global public health emergency last week amid a growing number of reported cases in Congo and Uganda. A...
U.S. Secret Service rushed reporters into the press briefing room on Saturday after gunshots were fired near the White House, according to The Hill’s sister network NewsNation. A law enforcement source told NewsNation that a man armed with a pistol opened fire near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, and Secret Service returned fire, taking...
Key Senate Republicans are raising concerns about a reported peace deal being negotiated with Iran, arguing it would be a disaster for the United States that would make meaningless the war launched by President Trump nearly three months ago. “The rumored 60-day ceasefire — with the belief that Iran will ever engage in good faith...
Higher education in the United States is under fire, and much of it is deserved. News of its illiberal and divisive diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, as well as pedagogy and student activism, has made anything DEI or DEI-adjacent a target. While DEI looks innocuous and indeed welcoming in principle, in practice, it often entails […]
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is back on the scene, and he hopes everyone forgot about the scandals that drove him out of office. Cuomo launched his long-rumored run for New York City mayor on Saturday. Capitalizing on the unpopularity of current Mayor Eric Adams, Cuomo declared that the city is in dire straits […]
As a college professor, I have the chance to visit numerous college campuses nationwide and meet thousands of undergraduates every year, and I’ve noticed there has been a considerable change among undergraduates since the November election. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s victory, there is less patience for cancel culture on campuses. Whereas students […]
Over the past 15 years, the birth rate in the United States has dropped from 2.1 births per woman to 1.66, well below the birth rate needed to keep the population stable. This trend needs to be reversed. President Donald Trump thinks making in vitro fertilization more accessible could help achieve this goal, and his […]
Assaults. Burglaries. Robberies. Theft. Murders. Growing up in an urban community in Philadelphia, I witnessed all of these. I have also been a victim of many of them, as have my friends and members of my immediate family. Unfortunately, they are the crimes that residents of the nation’s biggest cities regularly experience. Media reports cover these […]
FOR ONE LEADING DEMOCRAT, TRUMP PARANOIA, MUSK PARANOIA, AND PUTIN PARANOIA MERGE INTO ONE. Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy is one of the Democrats urging his party to resist President Donald Trump more aggressively across a broad range of issues. “Mr. Murphy has seemed to be everywhere, all at once, since Inauguration Day,” the New York […]
Vladimir Putin was the only winner in last week’s Oval Office grudge match between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump harmed U.S. national security by ignoring our profound, long-standing interest in European stability, which we learned through the 20th Century’s two hot world wars and one Cold War. Ensuring our enemies do not […]
The rising federal deficit, which is driven entirely by spending growth, is out of control. Last year, for the first time ever, the federal government spent more on interest payments on debt, $950 billion, than it did on defense, $826 billion, which is a data point in a lamentable category of shocking but also inevitable. […]
Anybody who watched the entire Oval Office meeting between President Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky would know that it was not an “ambush” or...
Going forward, Israel must still meet its three goals: get the hostages home, destroy Hamas’ military and administrative power and ensure Gaza can never...
Without Congress’ help, warns Reason’s Veronique de Rugy, President Trump “will fail to deliver on his promise to the American people to bring prices...
Left-wing mobs trying to shut down “controversial” speakers on college campuses is not exactly a new phenomenon. But what just happened at Stanford University may be the most ironic campus censorship effort of all time. On Feb. 25, two left-of-center economists, Larry Summers, a moderate Democrat, and Emmanuel Saez, a progressive, participated in a debate […]
