The new PBS Masterpiece series Marble Hall Murders is a sumptuously filmed “cozy” with an unthreatening structural complexity. The Viking Cruises crowd will eat it up with a Christofle spoon. Like its predecessors, Magpie Murders (2022) and Moonflower Murders (2024), the new show is based on a book by Anthony Horowitz, who returns here as […]
Dogs bark, ducks quack, and populists offer free stuff. Enrique Pena Nieto dispensed around 10 million TV sets to low-income Mexican households. Hugo Chavez gave Venezuelans steeply discounted refrigerators, air conditioning units, and, again, TV sets. In Argentina, Evita Peron would personally hand out children’s toys, sewing machines, clothes, and kitchenware. None of these (for once […]
During Donald Trump’s first run for the presidency, China, the economic behemoth that was gutting America’s manufacturing base and flexing its muscles in East Asia, was his favorite punching bag. Yet as Trump was seeking to reclaim the presidency after four years in the political wilderness, his new foreign target was much closer to home: […]
Make America Great Again celebrity Charlie Kirk, attempting to balance support for the administration and appeal to online isolationists, maintains that the “regime change war machine in D.C.” is pushing President Donald Trump into “an all-out blitz on Iran.” If the president acts, shadowy agents of the military-industrial complex will surely be blamed. But the […]
Today is June 19, or Juneteenth, as it has come to be known in the United States. It marks the anniversary of Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger issuing General Order No. 3 after arriving in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, over two months after the Civil War ended. The order announced the enforcement of the […]
In the spring of 2025, I traveled to Michigan Technological University to speak to a Young Americans for Freedom chapter on freedom, responsibility, and entitlement. After the speech, the Q&A shifted to the subject of Oct. 7 and its aftermath, with several older members of the audience, at least one of whom was a member of the faculty, […]
It’s official: Democrats are in the party that stands for legal child sex changes. At least, that’s the unmistakable takeaway from the Democratic response to the massive Supreme Court decision upholding red states’ ability to restrict or ban medical gender transition treatments for minors. One by one, major Democratic lawmakers came out with statements condemning […]
I am a Texan, born and raised. I love my state, even with its various challenges and imperfections. Texas has many significant historical tags: the battle of the Alamo, Roe v. Wade, and, of course, Juneteenth. On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and declared that all enslaved people in Texas […]
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) is no political hero. He is not a martyr. Democrats today are little more than soap opera performers. Padilla is a great example of this. Despite left-wing adulation to the contrary, the senator from California demonstrated over the last week that he is nothing more than a court jester portraying the […]
It has now been more than a month since Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdish insurgency in Turkey, called for his Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, to disband more than 40 years after it started its fight. “The terrorist group laying down its arms is a victory for civilization,” deputy State Department spokesman […]
The Trump administration almost snatched defeat from the jaws of victory last week on immigration. Just as self-deportation is gaining steam, the White House briefly gave in to corporate pressure and announced that whole sections of the economy would be exempt from immigration enforcement. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cancelled that order Monday, but the incident […]
The past month has seen bold advances in Donald Trump’s crusade to recapture cultural ground that the Left had conquered in recent decades. Whether on museums, media, or universities, the president is on the offensive and the Left is in retreat. Last week alone saw advances on two fronts: a congressional win against NPR and […]
Not even feigned impartiality comes through in transgender activists’ interactions with the Supreme Court’s recent United States v. Skrmetti ruling. To the legacy media and the dissenting justices, the decision is strictly unreasonable. After Skrmetti’s arguments in December 2024, justices released their opinions this past Wednesday, revealing a 6-3 ruling in favor of upholding Tennessee’s […]
If the destruction and chaos we saw in Los Angeles taught us anything, it’s that who we let into this country matters. Visas are a privilege, not a right, and President Donald Trump wants to ensure that the U.S. visa system puts America’s interests first. During my time in the White House under the Trump […]
As our country celebrates Juneteenth, we should recognize those who worked tirelessly from the founding of our nation to end the cruel institution of slavery. John Quincy Adams, an outspoken antislavery advocate, was one of those leaders. He fought tirelessly for the rights of enslaved people across America. From his time on the House floor […]
