When Bill de Blasio defended Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s labeling of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "war criminal," he pointed to one metric above all: the number of...
President Donald Trump’s teleprompter operator, Gabriel Perez, is out of a job after he reportedly made six figures betting on the contents of Trump’s speeches, which, of course, Perez could read before almost anyone else. When the news broke, Trump put Perez on unpaid leave immediately, and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called his […]
It is extraordinary how few countries can build nuclear weapons. Eighty-one years have passed, almost to the day, since the bombing of Hiroshima. Yet, of the 195 states recognized by the United Nations, 186 are technologically unable to make warheads. Beyond the original five nuclear states — that is, the five countries that sit on […]
Who would have guessed that an Italian film made in 1957, starring one icon of that nation’s cinema (Marcello Mastroianni) and directed by another (Luchino Visconti), and based, of all things, on a short story by a long-dead Russian master (Fyodor Dostoevsky), would speak more urgently to contemporary audiences’ needs, fears, and hopes than any […]
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slammed the Trump administation for pulling federal funding from Harvard University for failing to crack down on antisemitism.
In case you are trying to keep track of Disney‘s political morals, here is a summary: a state that doesn’t teach kindergarteners about being gay is a moral travesty, but a country that makes it illegal to be gay is a business opportunity. Disney is building a new theme park resort in none other than […]
BERNIE SANDERS: RIDE PRIVATE JETS? I DO IT FOR THE PEOPLE. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a socialist, came in for a lot of ridicule recently when the Washington Free Beacon reported that he spent $221,723 in campaign money on private jets for his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). And that is just […]
Tensions between longtime political, territorial, and ideological foes, India and Pakistan, are escalating. The current crisis began when Pakistan-based terrorists killed 26 Indian tourists in an April 22 attack in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region. On Wednesday, India launched retaliatory air strikes against terrorists inside Pakistan that it blames for the attack. Pakistan then […]
End therapy culture!The Newark-Liberty airport mess just keeps getting more alarming: Now it turns out that an insane leave policy for air-traffic controllers is...
The domestic intelligence service of Germany last week labeled “extremist” the political party that won the second-most seats in the Bundestag in February. The finding of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, or BfV, against the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party will allow for significantly more intensive government surveillance of AfD. […]
Skype is almost as old as I am, and it is too late for me to ever use it — the video and messaging app is now shut down for good. Such is the case for young people at large, who have grown up with a constantly shifting ground beneath them. That pattern is most […]
In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump has made significant strides in tackling the problem of illegal immigration. Little has yet been done, however, to overhaul America’s dysfunctional system of legal immigration. The United States is the preferred destination for would-be migrants from every continent and culture. Yet, given the number of people who want […]
With the July 4 deadline set by the White House for Congress to send President Donald Trump the “One Big Beautiful Bill” quickly approaching, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith are in a race against the clock to wrangle a three-seat Republican margin to pay for the $4 trillion […]
In an age where information is abundant but wisdom is scarce, the national conversation around immigration has been overwhelmed by selective storytelling and misleading narratives. Too often, we are told that all immigration is the same — that every migrant is an asylum-seeker coming to the United States to seek a better life, all immigration […]
Although immigrants today are more assimilated into American culture than previous generations, they could still be more integrated. And contrary to what many on the Left argue, assimilation benefits not only immigrants but also the native-born by boosting job prospects, personal satisfaction, and social cohesion. Many believe those who immigrated to Ellis Island were poor, […]
The State Department had revoked about 1,500 visas throughout the United States as of late April, Inside Higher Ed estimates. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has investigated some of them, and some will be asked to leave or be deported if they have broken the conditions of their student status per U.S. immigration law. A small […]
The Temporary Protected Status program, established under the Immigration Act of 1990, was designed as a humanitarian mechanism to provide temporary refuge for nationals of countries facing extraordinary conditions, such as armed conflict or natural disasters, that prevent safe return. The statute, codified at 8 U.S.C. § 1254a, grants the Secretary of Homeland Security sole […]
The Islamic Republic has long embraced a policy of plausible deniability. Iran attacks via proxy to avoid accountability. Rather than give direct operational orders, the supreme leader commands by omission rather than commission: He draws red lines that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran’s various intelligence services should not cross and gives them freedom […]
