President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet Tuesday ahead of Sen. Lindsey Graham's funeral, their second sit-down this month and after a far-right activist with the U.S. president's ear had a widely publicized change of heart on Russia's war against Ukraine.
Five months ago, Russia was willing to give land back. Now it is not. Nothing happened at any negotiating table in between. The front line moved, and the price moved with it. In late February, Bloomberg reported that Moscow was prepared to sign a framework in which it would withdraw from occupied slivers of the […]
Last week, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said his administration had reviewed whether New York City could execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He concluded that the city does not have the legal authority to do so, called on the federal government to execute the warrant instead, and […]
In October 2013, I commanded Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, on a route-clearance mission in Zabul Province, Afghanistan. The route ran 60 miles. It took nearly 10 days because the Taliban had seeded the road with hundreds of victim-operated bombs and laid ambushes along its length. We found and destroyed nearly 50 of […]
In 1992, Congress created what’s commonly known as the 340B program in order to help safety-net hospitals and clinics stretch limited resources to serve low-income and uninsured patients. By requiring pharmaceutical manufacturers to sell prescription drugs at steep discounts to qualifying hospitals and clinics, the logic went, the 340B program aimed to keep medications accessible […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) has imposed America’s first statewide moratorium on new large data centers. Democrats in Congress are now calling for Washington to follow her lead, including demands for a national pause on new artificial intelligence infrastructure. Their position is crystallizing: when data centers create political controversy, do not produce more electricity, modernize the […]
There are few more dangerous places in the world for Christians than Nigeria. The assault on Christian communities in Nigeria is among the most serious and persistent religious freedom crises of our day. Over the past few years, up to 100,000 Christians are believed to have been killed and thousands of churches destroyed. A consistent […]