House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday that President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is "not directly involved" in the administration's day-to-day workings.
Sen. Darline Graham's lead in unpublished polls shrank in the days leading up to Tuesday's Republican primary runoff, but that was before the president hosted a raucous rally for her Friday in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
As the costs of the Iran campaign mount and Congress fights over a bill to cover them, a familiar question is circulating in Washington: Did this war have to happen? It is the right question aimed at the wrong date. The honest ledger on this conflict does not open on Feb. 28, 2026, when the […]
In 1981, one of Washington’s most respected Democratic elder statesmen dismissed the new president as an “amiable dunce.” Clark Clifford, a former Secretary of Defense, said it at a dinner; the phrase leaked and became the era’s shorthand. Kind, but foolish. Likable, but lost. Forty years later, Gallup found that 69% of Americans, nearly half […]
When a federal bank examiner leans on a bank to close a customer’s account and that closure destroys the customer’s business, the government has taken private property without paying for it. That is a distinct constitutional claim, separate from the shareholder duty-of-care questions now working through the courts, and on June 10, the Department of […]
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche spent about an hour Thursday afternoon at the Justice Department with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. The meeting resolved nothing. Blanche told reporters afterward that the meeting was not entirely cordial because the survivors wanted “some form of justice” he did not believe he could deliver. The survivors described deflection […]
Democrats are beginning to discover a political opportunity in the public backlash against data centers. A new Politico poll finds that Americans’ views on data centers have grown increasingly negative and politically polarized, with Democrats more likely than Republicans to oppose building data centers in their communities. That should be a warning to Republicans but […]
On the morning of July 4, someone in Houston, Texas, cut two surveillance cameras in half and draped an American flag over the wreckage. In New Bern, North Carolina, police asked the public to help identify two men filmed destroying a camera — the public responded with hundreds of tips identifying the suspects as Batman […]
Politicians on the Left have spent years labeling everything President Donald Trump does or says as a vague “threat to democracy.” But the real threat to our democracy and system of self-rule is routinely ignored by the political class. Speaking from the White House, the president outlined newly declassified intelligence, which reveals how exposed American […]
The recent vote by the House against an amendment to block U.S. military aid to Israel could lead to Washington’s Israelization by forcing Jerusalem to defend itself against terrorist threats. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), the outgoing anti-Israel crusader, sponsored the amendment. “Israelization’s” biggest beneficiary would be Iran. Massie’s amendment would have prohibited funds from being […]
Twenty years ago, in the midst of an Israel-Lebanon war triggered by a cross-border raid by Hezbollah, then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice famously declared, “What we’re seeing here, in a sense, is the growing — the birth pangs of a new Middle East.” She never explained what the old Middle East was nor did she […]
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is at it again. In a recent interview, he announced he is actively exploring whether his administration can arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an expected visit to New York for the U.N. General Assembly. He cited an International Criminal Court warrant and claimed he’s consulting city lawyers […]
Chinese artificial intelligence company Moonshot AI recently released its latest model, Kimi K3, triggering fresh alarm in the United States that China may be erasing America’s AI lead. In April, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation estimated that China’s leading model at that time, DeepSeek’s V4, was approximately eight months behind top American systems. […]
On July 17, 2019, the United States kicked Turkey out of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, five days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received the Russian-made S-400 air defense system it had purchased. President Donald Trump may admire Erdogan, but he had no choice. The 2017 Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act applied sanctions […]
President Donald Trump has always insisted that he wants to make a deal with the Iranian regime. If the back-and-forth negotiations since the spring prove anything, though, it is that Tehran is unwilling to settle this conflict diplomatically. As the president himself said last week, the remaining leaders of the Islamic Republic are “stone-cold crazy.” […]
