It was FIFA’s corruption that stunned people, not President Donald Trump’s. The chief executive’s contempt for rules is now taken for granted. What astonished the world was that soccer’s global governing body crumbled in the face of his pressure. To recap, the American striker Folarin Balogun was sent off for jumping on the ankle of […]

For several months, the Strait of Hormuz was closed, sparking speculation of $8 a gallon gasoline and global recession. While the period caused some pain, it turned out to be more sanguine than many predicted. Much of the credit belongs to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, one of the most effective government programs in history. The […]

On June 30, the Drug Enforcement Administration took steps to temporarily ban 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) products nationwide. You might think this is about public safety — but as a recent article showed, the kratom industry has been pushing bans like this because it doesn’t like the 7-OH competition. But for folks like me, living with chronic […]

When Washington announced in January that the United States would withdraw from 66 international organizations — 31 of them United Nations bodies, including the framework convention that has anchored global climate diplomacy for three decades, the reaction abroad was the familiar blend of alarm and condescension. Reckless. Isolationist. The indispensable nation calling it quits. I […]

In the mid-1950s, several countries had fallen or were falling to the scourge of tyrannical socialism. At the time, President Dwight Eisenhower, who a decade earlier played a crucial role in the defeat of national socialist Nazi Germany in World War II, proposed “the falling domino theory.” Speaking metaphorically about the rise of socialism in […]

For months, many Democrats, “progressives,” leftists, and media figures stood by, or ran interference for, Graham Platner. They didn’t waver, even in the face of his Nazi tattoo, his verifiable lies about said Nazi tattoo, the contents of his appalling online footprint, his bogus “blue-collar” credentials, the sexting revelations, and even a New York Times […]

President Donald Trump told reporters at this week’s NATO summit in Ankara that he is “number one on the kill list” for Iran. While Trump was in Turkey, a member of Iran’s parliament publicly proposed missile strikes on his location there. Earlier this year, Iranian state media broadcast the photograph from Butler, Pennsylvania, with a […]

The Democratic Socialists of America surpassed 120,000 members over the Fourth of July weekend, eclipsing its 1912 peak of 113,371 dues-paying members. Compared with the 45.4 million Americans registered as Democrats in April 2026, that number may seem small. But America’s political system gives a disciplined faction far more influence than its raw numbers suggest. […]

In the era of mass surveillance, victories for privacy tend to be rare, making it that much more important to celebrate them when they occur. And, well, last month’s Supreme Court decision in Chatrie v. United States is just such an occasion. Being the first Supreme Court case in nearly a decade to tackle matters […]

Staggering hypocrisy and pretense pervade Democrat arguments for and against Graham Platner. The lowlife candidate from Maine finally quit the Senate race on July 8. State and national Democratic parties turned against their man when a former girlfriend accused him of sexual assault. There is some countervailing evidence to support his denials, but the hideous […]