We are less than three months from the midterm elections, and for all the billions of dollars that will be spent convincing Americans otherwise, the choice facing voters is remarkably straightforward. Do Americans want government guided by common sense? Or by crazy, woke ideas that have endlessly proven to make our lives worse? If they […]

Rom Braslavski was working security at the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, when Palestinian terrorists overran it and abducted him to Gaza. Held for nearly two years by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Braslavski was shown in captivity skeletal and weeping. After his October 2025 release, he described regular beatings and said he had been […]

As a former member of Congress and a lawyer who spent years watching how our legal system actually works, I am deeply troubled by a quiet but corrosive practice that has grown into a multibillion-dollar industry: third-party litigation funding. Outside investors and activist organizations put up the money for lawsuits in exchange for a cut […]

On Feb. 12, 2025, a reporter in the Oval Office asked President Donald Trump about Ukraine’s terms. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wanted security assurances, she said — then corrected herself: If the war ended, he wanted guarantees. Two words. Two consecutive sentences. Used as if they meant the same thing. The president said, “We’ll see […]

The Mecca Agreement and regional pipeline bypasses confirm that Middle Eastern self-reliance, as a multinational region, is no longer theoretical.  Three months ago, I discussed the transitions underway across the Middle East amid the Iran war. With continual delays and memorandums, it looked as though Iran was running the show. That reading missed what was […]

Thirty-eight years after Iran’s mass execution of political prisoners, the gallows are still being used for the same political purpose: to intimidate a population that challenges the Islamic Republic. On Sunday, Iran executed Shahram Sadeghi in Karaj. He had been convicted of deliberately driving into police officers during the January 2026 anti-government protests. Iran’s judiciary […]