Opinion

Just two years after successfully electing a 37-year-old with no experience outside city government as mayor of Oakland, government unions secured another victory for their preferred candidate this month, ensuring 79-year-old Barbara Lee won’t touch their pensions or force them to show up to work. That 37-year-old, Sheng Thao, has since been recalled after the […]

SAVANNAH, Georgia — Not all tariff stories are the same. Just over 12 years ago, while on active duty, Tyler Merritt founded Nine Line Apparel out of a garage, creating a brand of clothing dedicated to honoring service members. It soon became a smash hit that didn’t resonate with just veterans and their families, but […]

PANAMA CITY, Panama—When President Theodore Roosevelt formulated plans for the Panama Canal, there was no Panama. The country was still part of the Republic of Colombia despite bouts of on-again, off-again autonomy and separatism. When Colombia rejected proposals for the canal, Roosevelt threw U.S. support to Panamanian independence or, as Panamanians refer to it, separation […]

Wisconsin’s state government is profoundly unserious. State Democrats have decided they are fine with the governor being an emperor with magical powers to rewrite legislation to fit his agenda. The Wisconsin Supreme Court affirmed this view, upholding a “veto” by Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) on an education bill. In 2023, the Wisconsin legislature passed a […]

From the Wright brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk to NASA’s putting the first man on the moon, America has been a beacon of aviation excellence and ingenuity for decades. However, America’s aviation infrastructure and air traffic control technologies need a substantial upgrade after a serious decline of our once cutting-edge, illustrious industry into an antiquated, dilapidated system. Air traffic […]

President Donald Trump has previously blamed U.S. weakness on the international stage on his two predecessors as having emboldened bad actors, and rightly so. Former President Barack Obama’s milquetoast walk back from his Syrian “red line” (and acceding to the Russian-brokered sham agreement on former Syrian President Bashar Assad’s chemical weapons) and former President Joe […]

Confidence in American universities is at a record low, with just 36% of the public reporting a “great deal or quite a lot of confidence” in higher education. That’s down sharply from a decade ago, especially among Republicans, of whom only 22% today have high confidence in the “honesty and ethical standards” of college professors. […]

The Trump administration shut off federal funding through Medicaid for non-healthcare-related services such as housekeeping, groceries, and internet earlier this month. It’s about time. Medicaid exists to provide health benefits to the nation’s neediest, not to subsidize a laundry list of liberal priorities. Over the last two decades, it has increasingly served as a slush fund […]

The U.S. military prides itself on discipline, merit, and readiness. But when politics infects leadership, even the strongest institutions can be compromised. As a Navy service member serving under multiple administrations, I saw firsthand how misguided policies can ripple through the force long after the headlines fade. Nearly four years after the failed Biden administration […]

Critics say New York public school officials hold diversity, equity, and inclusion above all else, certainly above a proper academic education. By defying the Trump administration’s order to end DEI or lose $2 billion in federal funding, they seem to want to prove those critics right. In a statement last week, New York public school […]

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) drew the ire of victims of illegal immigrant crime everywhere on Thursday when he met with illegal immigrant and suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the CECOT maximum security prison in El Salvador.  Abrego Garcia had been living in Van Hollen’s home state of Maryland. Despite being in […]