The anti-corruption drive launched by Ukraine over the past few days is long overdue. But while positive, it will have little lasting effect unless Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's government maintains this action and targets midranking officials as well as those at the top.
In order to be credible, a defensive military alliance requires the common confidence of its members that, should one member be attacked, other members will provide it with decisive support. Whatever other interests they may have with the United States and its NATO allies, it is now obvious that Turkey and Hungary cannot fulfill this expectation. Both nations should be suspended from the alliance.
A constitutional amendment for term limits offered by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is nothing more than demagoguery masquerading as a serious proposal. Unless substantially altered, it merits oblivion.
President Joe Biden recently appointed Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford to be on the Department of Agriculture’s 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which is scheduled to issue new dietary guidelines for the public in 2025.
Contrary to his absurd assertions, Donald Trump is certainly not the best president in our nation's history, but he might be the luckiest man alive. Not only has President Joe Biden conceded that he, like his Republican predecessor, improperly stored classified documents in his personal premises. Now Mike Pence, that paragon of social conservative ethics and top Trump 2024 challenger, has admitted that he has done the same.
Former Ambassador to the United Nations and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) made it clear last week that she is eyeing a run for the Republican nomination for president. She told Fox News anchor Bret Baier she doesn’t think you need to be an 80-year-old to be a leader in Washington, D.C.
Arriving for work at the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center at 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, seemed like any other day. I sat in my cubicle and read through overnight cable traffic. We had increased “chatter” from al Qaeda and had warned of this in a presidential daily brief the previous month, but we had no...
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday said Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) will be removed from office if the House Ethics Committee finds that the embattled congressman broke the law. The remark is McCarthy’s most extensive comment yet on potential punishments Santos could face amid the mounting controversies and accusations against him. “If for some way...
A woman who yelled threats directed at former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as she and others stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was found guilty Tuesday of multiple charges related to her actions that day. A release from the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia states that Pauline Bauer, a 55-year-old...
*Note: the author uses the term East Turkistan to refer to what others call Xinjiang because he, like most Uyghurs, view ‘Xinjiang’ as a pejorative chosen by the Chinese to intentionally offend Uyghurs with each mention. After World War II and the tragedy of the Holocaust, the world adopted a phrase that expressed its newfound...