In an era when content creators say increasingly outrageous things to stand out from the crowd and politicians must reach potential voters wherever they are, how far is too far? This past October, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts ignited a wave of resignations at the storied conservative think tank after posting a video defending Tucker […]
“Exposure to infants in the social environment,” economists Sebastian Galiani and Raul Sosa write in a recent paper, “activates neurobiological mechanisms that increase the desire for parenthood.” That is, babies are contagious. We’ve long known that. As a culture of rational sophisticates, we try to laugh off “baby fever” as an old wives’ tale. As […]
The United Nations General Assembly, led by Ghana, recently passed a resolution by a 123-3 vote declaring that the “transatlantic” slave trade was the “gravest crime” ever committed against humanity. The resolution demands “reparatory justice” for “Africans and people of African descent” due to its “scale, duration, systemic nature, and brutality.” Why focus just on the transatlantic […]
Many American progressives of different faiths, or no faith, celebrated the message delivered by Pope Leo XIV at St. Peter’s Basilica for the April 11 Prayer Vigil for Peace that, in other circumstances, they might have balked at. “Thoughts and prayers,” is shorthand for a kind of consolation after gun-related tragedies in the United States […]
The world is not short on bad news. Gas prices remain stubbornly elevated. Congress has lurched from one standoff to the next, the SAVE America Act is still grinding through the Senate, and a partial Department of Homeland Security shutdown is dragging into its fourth month. Overseas wars grind on. Americans looking for something to […]
Democrats in competitive primaries keep fighting about corporate PAC money. It has opened up a muddy and sometimes performative debate.
The issue has played...
1963—Ernesto Miranda is arrested in Phoenix on charges of abduction and rape. His interrogation by police yields a written confession. His confession is admitted...
Teresa Carlson, founding president of the General Catalyst Institute, joins the show to talk about whether the tech industry can bridge its differences with the Pentagon on AI, if a drone "bubble" is forming in the economy, and how the military can drive innovation.
President Trump is scrambling to replace the revenue the federal government lost when the Supreme Court struck down his biggest and boldest tariffs last month.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth said during a Friday morning press briefing that the U.S. "is decimating the radical Iranian regime's military" and that the Islamic Republic's new supreme leader was injured and "likely disfigured."
"Desperate and hiding, they've gone underground, cowering," Hegseth said of Iranian leadership.
"That's what rats do. We know the new so-called not-so-Supreme leader is wounded and likely disfigured," he said.
Iran's new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed during the beginning of the war, issued a written statement on Thursday that Hegseth described as "weak."
"It was a written statement," Hegseth said. "Iran has plenty of cameras and plenty of voice recorders. Why a written statement? I think you know why. His father dead. He's scared, he's injured, he's on the run and he lacks legitimacy. It's a mess for them. Who's in charge? Iran may not even know."
Senior GOP lawmakers tell Fox News Digital that a reconciliation bill may be the only way to bolster defense spending and modernize the military amid rising threats from Iran.
President Trump asserted that the U.S. is "totally destroying" Iran, declaring, in a Friday Truth Social post, "Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today."
GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville faced criticism after writing "The enemy is inside the gates" in response to a post from an account that juxtaposed photos of 9/11 and Big Apple Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
