It is an easy and entertaining setup. Recruit one fervent believer and one atheist, give them microphones, and let them have at it. And that is exactly what happened when Catholic New York Times columnist Ross Douthat debated atheist psychologist Steven Pinker on the subject, “Do we need God?” inside Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church […]
High-ranking Cuban government officials, including President Miguel Diaz-Canel, recently conducted a five-day festival of concerts, art exhibits, and educational colloquiums to celebrate what would have been Fidel Castro’s 100th birthday on Aug. 13. He died in 2016. On August 1, 1953, in the mountains of Cuba, a Rural Guard squad led by Lt. Pedro Sarria […]
California Democrats continue to jack up gas prices and tell Californians what kind of cars they are allowed to buy. Now, the state also wants to dictate what kind of tires people are allowed to buy as well. The California Energy Commission voted unanimously to impose new, strict “efficiency standards” for tires, based on their […]
The story should be leading every bulletin. The national debt has just risen to $40 trillion. That sum is unimaginable, for the same reason that intergalactic and subatomic distances are unimaginable. Our brains are not configured to compute on such scales. Perhaps for that reason, the breaking of the $40 trillion barrier has received less […]
The Spanish Armada couldn’t do it. Nor the Luftwaffe. Nor the Irish Republican Army. But one thing can destroy the United Kingdom once and for all: terminal wokeness. And only one man can stop it, Nigel Farage, who just won reelection to Parliament and remains Britain’s only hope of survival. Britain’s economic, political, and cultural […]
Karoline Leavitt is leaving one of the most visible jobs in American politics. She is 28 years old. She has two young children. And after returning from maternity leave, she reached a conclusion people should treat as a warning: The demands of the White House press secretary job cannot coexist with the mother she wants […]
One of the most in-demand campaign surrogates on the Democratic Socialists of America-aligned Left these days is a communist, pro-terrorism streamer named Hasan Piker. If that description feels uncharitable or hyperbolic, read on. Numerous candidates have proudly aligned themselves with Piker, with some campaigning alongside him. Piker has come under withering and deserved criticism from […]
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pulled his country’s negotiators from trade talks with the U.S. on Friday evening, just hours before the Trump administration’s new round of tariffs were set to go into effect. This decision followed weeks of intense negotiations between the two nations over President Trump’s proposed 50 percent tariffs on over $20...
Lower court judges have now fully lifted certain limitations on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that cleared the end of temporary protected status (TPS), removing any final roadblock to deportations. A federal judge earlier this week lifted the final stay that barred immigration officials from carrying...
The streets of Washington will be filled with the roars of professional motor sports this weekend as the IndyCar Series brings its high-speed show to the nation’s capital for the first time ever during the final stretch of its 2026 season. The event, which spans two days and will close streets around the National Mall...