America’s war with Iran is at an impasse. President Donald Trump’s unfulfilled threats to launch a “major strike” are partly to blame. By constantly promising to strike the Islamic Republic only to back off at the last moment, Trump has undercut America’s leverage and made Iran less, not more, likely to negotiate in good faith. […]
The Senate adjourned for a five-week recess early Saturday morning after passing a bill to fund the federal government until Dec. 11 and confirming Todd Blanche as attorney general. Senate Republicans also agreed to set aside — for the moment — President Trump’s demand to approve another budget resolution to pave the way for tens...
The Senate early Saturday morning confirmed Todd Blanche as the next attorney general, with the nominee narrowly securing sufficient GOP backing after making a number of promises about how he would handle his tenure as the country’s top law enforcement officer. The vote was 50-49. Though confirmed along a party-line vote when he was nominated...
Will the developing world, home to billions of possible customers and enormous reserves of critical minerals necessary for defense and next-generation technology, fall under China’s spell? That’s the question before Congress as it debates reauthorizing the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, America’s primary tool to combat Beijing’s malign plans for political, economic, and military dominance […]
The University of Michigan is shutting down its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, which has only made the university more divided and hysterical. University leaders have decided to “close the school’s DEI offices, shutter its DEI plans, and end diversity statements in hiring.” This is a massive change for the university that had one of […]
Reps. This month, Brad Schneider (D-IL) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) introduced a bill to ask the State Department to remove Turkey from its Bureau of European Affairs and instead place Turkey in its Bureau of New Eastern Affairs. It is a good, long-overdue idea. Secretary of State Marco Rubio should embrace it immediately, even prior to a […]
Personal, Luddite-esque aversions to technology can still couple with the Trump administration’s plans to lead on artificial intelligence. It is a needed reconciliation, yet it is hindered by the “women’s issues” that lead every cultural and political conversation. AI dominates national concern right now. While the Trump administration aims to lead the sector “to promote […]
On Wednesday, at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Marines from Virginia came face-to-face with Vice President JD Vance, the first Marine vice president in history. Twenty years ago, he was just like them: young and often unprepared for what awaited at the base. They arrived from various parts of the country and are from different races […]
In his Inaugural Address on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump pledged “to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.” It was a shallow pledge. That much is made clear by the Trump administration’s escalating crackdown on U.S. visa holders who have criticized Israel, expressed support for Palestinian causes, or both. […]
The CEO of National Public Radio, Katherine Maher, just testified before Congress amid a push to defund NPR and PBS. It’s hard to imagine how it could’ve gone worse for Maher. Rep. Brandon Gill, a Texas Republican, confronted the NPR executive with her own statements and completely destroyed her credibility in just a few minutes […]
NPR and PBS used to justify their unjustifiable taxpayer funding by telling people that poor children would be harmed if their educational programming was cut. Then, in 2015, Sesame Street got a private deal with HBO, and a stream of educational content came online. Now, the mantra is that without public broadcasting, there will be […]
This must have been what it was like to live through the French or Russian revolutions. Our old assumptions are crumbling. The hierarchies, doctrines, and habits we held up as praiseworthy a few months ago are suddenly detestable. The speed of the vibe shift has been vertiginous. Affirmative action in universities has been ruled unconstitutional. […]
Two high-profile news executives at the end of March demonstrated the extraordinary inability of their caste to see things other than through a distorted left-wing lens. Both executives intended to defend their organizations but did so with arguments, and even more with attitudes, that underscored rather than erased the legacy media’s dishonesty, blindness, or bias […]
President Donald Trump, members of his administration, and Republican members of Congress talk a lot about reducing the federal deficit. Unfortunately, their words are empty of substance. What matters to the long-term fiscal and economic health of the nation is enacting legislation to reduce the deficit. But the Republican Party’s major legislative effort, a giant reconciliation bill, […]
There is nothing a public policy analyst enjoys more than a good analogy. Artificial intelligence literature is replete with them, provided regularly by think tank experts, industry luminaries — Anthropic’s Dario Amodei’s “Machines of Loving Grace,” referencing poet Richard Brautigan, remains my favorite — and philosophers of diverse perspectives. Recently, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt […]
In the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, adopting tactics of the minority will never yield substantive wins for the majority. Caving to that temptation will backfire and undercut our ability to govern and legislate, circumventing President Donald Trump‘s agenda and the mandate given to this majority entirely — a result that should never occur. Discharge petitions, […]
Not since 2023’s Barbie have conservatives found a film they so love to hate. Snow White’s press tour was doomed from the start, with lead actress Rachel Zegler first bashing the source material and then proudly endorsing various progressive shibboleths. If all press really were good press, the film probably wouldn’t have had such a […]
