Political influencer Hasan Piker lashes out at OFAC subpoena over his Cuba trip, calling it an "intimidation operation" with a chilling effect on speech.
President Donald Trump's emerging deal to end the Iran war is drawing heavy criticism from some fellow Republicans who favor a harder line against the government in Tehran and fear a lost opportunity to finally rein in a longtime Mideast nemesis.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio shot back at Republican criticism of a possible deal with Iran as “absurd,” adding that “our preference is to address this through a diplomatic means.” “The idea that somehow this president, given everything he’s already proven he’s willing to do, is going to somehow agree to a deal that ultimately...
The Ebola outbreak spreading throughout Central Africa is the first major outbreak since the Trump administration demolished its global health programs and largely withdrew from the world stage last year. Experts say the absence is palpable. While the U.S. is sending resources and teams of experts overseas, public health and infectious disease experts say President...
President Donald Trump took his first steps toward securing a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine last week. Following conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump offered optimism that a peace deal would be reached. We hope Trump is indeed able to end a war that has cost hundreds […]
The Department of Transportation’s petty bureaucrats -- who gave us infinitely extended bike lanes and ugly, traffic-congesting “plazas” – have won again.
On Wednesday, EPA head Lee Zeldin announced that his team rooted out roughly $20 billion in taxpayer money that the Biden administration had squirrelled...
States need to change who sits on professional licensing boards, make them advisory to an accountable government official, or both. Our safety and public...
The Trump administration wants federal funds for cancer and Alzheimer’s research to go to finding cures rather than subsidizing campus bureaucracies. In response, college leaders have gone to court to stop the National Institutes of Health from reducing taxpayer subsidies for campus slush funds, with matters in the balance due to a federal injunction. The Trump […]
The progressive Left’s war on biological reality continues, and frankly, it’s getting kind of weird. A transgender TikTok influencer named Zaya Perysian just announced a partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union to sue the Trump administration after it changed rules around passports and other government documents, no longer allowing people to change their listed […]
In March, the Broadway premiere of Good Night, and Good Luck, co-written by and starring George Clooney, will debut at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York. As Playbill explains, “a work of historical drama, Good Night, and Good Luck centers on a clash between famed journalist Edward R. Murrow and infamous U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, of anti-communist HUAC fame.” “Edward R. Murrow operated […]
The Republican budget voted out of committee this week purports to spend $4.6 trillion in fiscal 2025, which ends Sept. 30. If accurate, the budget passed by Senate Republicans would appear to be about $800 billion less than last year. Should we celebrate? Before anyone pops a cork of champagne, we should remember that the federal […]
On Nov. 28, 2024, Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party announced the suspension of the country’s European Union accession process until 2028 — a move widely viewed as a betrayal of the nation’s long-standing aspirations to join Western alliances. Within an hour of the announcement, protesters flooded Tbilisi’s central thoroughfare in defiance of what they saw […]
