Tuesday morning, Savannah Guthrie sat at the desk where she has anchored the news for millions of people and begged anyone with information about her mother to come forward. “Somebody knows something,” she said. “We are in agony and we cannot be at peace. This is a moment to tell you we need your help. […]
American foreign assistance can be a powerful instrument of good — but is best when it is managed with discipline, strategic intent, and genuine accountability. We know this from direct experience running foreign assistance at the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development during the first Trump administration. The lesson was unambiguous: The effectiveness […]
As we celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday, we should consider the influence our national parks and monuments have on our people and heritage. Many of these locations are designed to honor our rich history, which is filled with positives that changed the world for the better. Principles of liberty, justice, and democratic representative government were […]
On a cold December day, the judge’s words washed over me: “… taking her from behind and throwing — putting her onto a bed when she’s screaming no … I make a finding of domestic violence was committed … against Ms. Landry.” I was a face of military advocacy — an installation-level Military Spouse of […]
Conservative outsider Abelardo De La Espriella recently prevailed in the second round of Colombia’s presidential election. De La Espriella campaigned on confronting narco-terrorist groups, reviving the economy, and curbing corruption and runaway government spending. His narrow victory over Ivan Cepeda, Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s ideological ally and preferred successor, hands Washington a rare chance to […]
New York City’s rental market is arguably the country’s worst. Its metro area’s housing shortage exceeds 400,000 homes. Median asking rent has risen 7.3% year over year in New York City. San Francisco rents have risen twice as fast at 16.9%. These cities now have the nation’s highest rents. Beyond high rents and scarce housing […]
If our citizens understood the dangers we are facing with our wild, out-of-control spending and the enormous advantages of a balanced or near-balanced budget, we might get support for fiscal sanity in Washington. We have no fiscal sanity today, and worse, the optimistic projections from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office show the situation getting much […]
There’s a cadence in the Army: if the Army gives you $100, they will take back $99. There is something fundamentally wrong when the U.S. government tells a service member, “Thank you for your sacrifice,” and then turns around and takes away benefits they have earned. That’s exactly what happens under the military’s outdated 60-day […]
On June 19, a hall in Switzerland sat empty. Hundreds of journalists had gathered near Lucerne for the ceremony that would formally close the war between the United States and Iran. Vice President JD Vance was scheduled to fly in. At the last minute, he didn’t. The official explanation was logistics. It was not logistics. […]
President Trump lashed out at the Republican lawmakers who supported an Iran war powers resolution in the Senate on Tuesday. Several GOP lawmakers voted with nearly all Democrats to approve the measure, including Sens. Bill Cassidy (La.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Susan Collins (Maine) and Rand Paul (Ky.). “Four Republican Losers voted with the Dumocrats, and...