Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he hopes Republicans lose the House and Senate in the midterms to hold President Donald Trump accountable for the trade war with Canada.
President Donald Trump will attend a Pentagon ceremony on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 while JD Vance joins former presidents at the World Trade Center.
The first American casualty of the Israel-Iran conflict was Tucker Carlson. “The first week of a war with Iran could easily kill thousands of Americans,” Carlson said on June 7. The Tehran Times, which calls itself the “voice of the Islamic Revolution,” praised Carlson’s acuity and agreed that American foreign policy is controlled by Fox News’s Mark Levin. […]
Ben Wattenberg died 10 years ago this month, but his legacy still looms large. Wattenberg, a pundit, demographer, and political operative, reshaped Washington and America through his farsighted thinking and writing. He constantly told his once beloved Democrats to stop drifting further and further to the left. They just as steadfastly refused to listen, with […]
You may have seen the headlines recently: “Social Security, Medicare to Run Short of Funds in 2023, Trustees Say.” Last year, the date was 2034, so doomsday is getting closer. However, beneath those headlines simmers a more chronic problem. Uncle Sam’s long-term diagnosis for the health of Social Security relies on a completely unreasonable assumption […]
“There’s no playbook” on how to move forward. This is what Chad Hartmann of Glenn Valley Foods told NBC News after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers raided his meat-packing plant in Omaha, Nebraska. ICE agents arrested 76 illegal immigrants at Hartmann’s plant alone, which he said was about half his entire workforce, and over 500 […]
Israel‘s preemptive strikes against arch-enemy Iran, and a tacit green light by the United States to continue, have capped years of aggressive international economic sanctions. Combined with diplomacy, with recent diplomatic efforts to head off Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons, it’s all set the stage for the Iranian regime’s deep vulnerability. This would have been […]
In the opening pages of his 1940 novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway recites the English writer John Donne’s famous poem from centuries past. “Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” Both works warn about the dangers of hubris. On Friday the 13th, the bell began to […]
President Donald Trump ran in 2024 on enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. As he follows through on that promise, he has prompted widespread opposition from the progressive Left. Protesters have organized in major cities not only to object to his actions but also to impede federal law enforcement. In many instances, Democratic officeholders have joined […]
“Brunch” can mean many things. It can mean a greasy family meal in a Hoboken diner where the kids get to choose either a fried egg or a PB&J sandwich. When two other families come over after church for hot cinnamon buns, while coffee flows profligately and the kids pound orange juice, that’s also brunch. […]
Democrats have a new strategy to soar to victory in 2026 and beyond and rally the country around their message: get arrested. Evidently jealous of the success of President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign after Democrats prosecuted him, resulting in a mug shot that Trump turned into campaign merchandise, Democrats have decided to try and replicate Trump’s strategy by getting […]
“Artificial intelligence” is a tech fantasist’s dream bubble, but let’s play along. Suppose tomorrow’s robots have human intelligence, self-directedness, and skill. Won’t they have our laziness, as well? Murderbot, the latest science-fiction series from Apple TV+, attempts to answer precisely that question. The popular fear is of machines that slay us in our beds. Apple’s […]
It’s not about the supposed cruelty of life support for Adriana Smith or the chance of survival for her newborn son, Chance. What opponents resent most is what the situation implies for their own lives. In fact, the lower the chance of survival for Chance, the more optimistic abortion advocates are. Smith, 30 years old […]
In the 27 years since Wes Anderson made Rushmore, his movies have only become more deliriously decorative and ostentatiously ornamental. Among the things audiences will encounter in Anderson’s new movie, The Phoenician Scheme, are shoeboxes containing business plans, multiple rosaries, assorted assassins or would-be assassins, a diplomatic pouch holding handkerchiefs and other valuables, a fruit […]
Amid the recent spate of revivals of British pop and rock music from the 1990s, including Blur’s 2023 album The Ballad of Darren and Oasis’s promised, or threatened, visit to North America’s stadia this summer, the return of the Sheffield act Pulp is the most unexpected and, therefore, the most welcome. When Jarvis Cocker’s troupe […]
Some brands become so dominant in their function that their names eclipse generic terms. We ask for a Kleenex instead of a tissue or Google a topic instead of searching the internet. When the word “Pinkertons” is uttered, we conjure the same image: a private detective, or at least hired muscle. That name, Pinkerton, has […]
