Trump's approval ratings remain underwater, at 44% in the latest Fox News Poll, despite his claims of "highest poll numbers ever" as he prepares for State of the Union address.
Conservative group Sentinel Action Fund is launching a $650K voter registration campaign set to begin after Trump's State of the Union address to boost Republican turnout.
Trump's State of the Union speech comes amid Supreme Court ruling against his tariff policies and voter concerns about cost of living ahead of November's midterm elections.
The Chinese Communist Party wants to be the world’s sole superpower. To achieve its vision of global dominance, China is getting help from an unexpected source: the United States. A recently published U.S. congressional report highlights how Beijing is exploiting American resources and technology. The report, titled “Containment Breach,” provides an exhaustive overview of how the […]
Whether the apparent cultural turn of early 2025 will produce lasting change remains an open question. Despite early promises from universities to scale back diversity, equity, and inclusion and recommit to open inquiry, campus life still feels stultified and defensive. As the American Enterprise Institute’s Sam Abrams wrote in the Washington Examiner this week, “beneath […]
In the final days of Socrates’s life, as he waited for his execution in an Athenian prison, his closest friend, Crito, visited him, waking him from a glorious dream. In that dream, a woman in white had appeared to him, assuring him that on the third day following, he would reside in the land of Pythia, […]
In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. Jacob Savage’s recent essay in Compact about the “lost generation” […]
News Items is a daily newsletter founded by longtime newsman John Ellis years ago. It is the “first read” for many because its 15-20 items cover the news waterfront and include links to the stories from dozens of news platforms as well as specialized journals. It’s a bracing bucket of cold water most mornings. Including […]
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani might not be an antisemite. He must just have really bad luck that everyone he surrounds himself with and is now empowering as part of his incoming administration happens to be one. Mamdani’s director of appointments, Catherine Almonte Da Costa, resigned last week after just one day on the job. […]
The classics are making a comeback. The great books of the past, which have been in danger of falling by the wayside as people read less and less, are suddenly reentering the zeitgeist. Guillermo del Toro’s film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was a big hit this year. The upcoming adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights has the internet buzzing. A new miniseries of Jane […]
