The state of Georgia is fighting in federal court to enforce its law banning prisoners from sex-change surgeries funded by taxpayers, and the state's top lawyer is willing to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court to protect public money from going to what he calls trans activism.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who grew up in Jim Crow South Carolina and went on to become a civil rights icon and the first Black male candidate for president of the United States, died Tuesday. He was 84.

Last month, we wrote about Midwestern Republican lawmakers — in Ohio and especially Indiana — defying pressure from the Trump administration to engage in mid-decade redistricting for partisan benefit. This was an off-ramp from spiraling redistricting wars, which Democrats say the GOP instigated with a redraw in Texas.  What they ignore in this “they started it” […]

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has launched a copycat antitrust suit against BP, Shell, Chevron, and Exxon Mobil for engaging in a “conspiracy to delay the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.” Her suit is a mirror image of the antitrust action that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed against BlackRock and other asset […]

Jeremy Carl, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the State Department’s assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs, seems an odd choice to be a lightning rod for controversy. Still, Democratic senators and their echo chambers in the partisan press seek his scalp, accusing Carl of everything from white supremacy to being antisemitic. Carl […]

“I believe the time has come to bring Europe’s mutual defense clause to life,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen declared at the 2026 Munich Security Conference. Her words captured the mood in European capitals. As Washington continues its strategic pivot toward the Indo-Pacific and signals that Europe must take primary responsibility for its […]