House Republicans on Wednesday announced their blueprint for a filibuster-proof budget bill that will spend up to $95 billion on defense, restocking weapons used in the Iran war, aid to farmers and implementation of voter ID requirements.
President Trump doubled down on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's use of traffic stops after the Department of Homeland Security announced its agents would temporarily halt them following recent fatal shootings in Maine and Texas.
President Donald Trump says Immigration and Customs Enforcement should continue traffic stops after recent fatal shootings, seeming to contradict a new policy to halt them.
On quiet, residential streets in Sterling, Virginia, residents often wake to the roar of diesel backup generators and smog that leaves their throats raw by morning — the price of AI data centers built without proper zoning oversight. This is the leading edge of a much bigger problem. Virginia alone hosts roughly a quarter of […]
With families still struggling after years of high inflation, “affordability” remains top of mind for policymakers in Washington. But one organization has little credibility on this front: AARP. Formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons, a more accurate moniker might be Against Affordability for Retired Persons because AARP makes most of its money […]
WHICH IS THE PARTY OF DEMOCRACY? Under wildly different circumstances, Democrats in Maine and Republicans in South Carolina face the problem of finding a new nominee to run for the Senate this November. They are handling the situation in remarkably different ways. Start with Maine. Last week, nominee Graham Platner finally succumbed to the long list of […]
When Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, senators will undoubtedly ask how he plans to continue righting the wrongs of a Justice Department that former President Joe Biden weaponized against the American people. They should add another issue to that list: dismantling the Biden […]
A recent headline in the Guardian calls for an economic reckoning: “We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy.” More than 350 signatories, including economists Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty, Kate Raworth, and anthropologist Jason Hickel, have endorsed an over 100-page “Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth” that provides a path to end […]
In my recent Washington Examiner op-ed, I argued that the greatest danger in confronting Iran is not necessarily losing a war, but stopping before achieving a durable strategic outcome. If an adversary survives, regroups, and rebuilds, what appears to be victory today can become tomorrow’s conflict. That observation raises a more fundamental question, one Washington […]