In a February meeting with the Trump administration, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby floated the idea of a merger between his company, United Airlines, and American Airlines. Most analysts and antitrust experts quickly rejected the proposal, arguing it would harm competition. But antitrust law is about more than simply preserving the largest number of competitors. It is about efficiency […]

Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch III survived another meeting of the governing Board of Regents this week. The secretive conclave took place Monday, and according to a spokesperson who clearly didn’t want to talk: “They didn’t vote on anything.” The next scheduled meeting is June 8, less than a month before the nation celebrates the […]

Iran is moving to charge the world for passing through the Strait of Hormuz. The last time the United States faced something similar, Founding Father and America’s third president, Thomas Jefferson, went to war to stop it. In 1801, Jefferson refused to pay tribute to the Barbary States — regimes that taxed maritime passage through […]

Sometimes it’s important to zoom out. As much of the news media microanalyzes specific elements of the U.S.-Israeli military operation against Iran’s regime, it’s vital not to lose sight of the overarching case for, and purpose of, the conflict. The regime has been violently anti-American since its very inception, nearly half a century ago. “Death […]

I began this Easter season at the vigil Mass at a Catholic parish in Northern Virginia that was not my own. I was at another church because I was the confirmation sponsor for a dear friend from college who was entering the Catholic Church after a 47-year spiritual journey that included a nominal Protestant upbringing, […]

If you’re not worried by the war, you’re not paying attention. No, not the war in the Middle East. The war in Africa. The Red Cross says there are more than 50 active conflicts in Africa right now. But the only one that interests our media is a civil war in Uganda between two troops […]

The tenous Pakistan-brokered ceasefire between Iran and the United States was quickly followed by Iran’s unwillingness to bend in any negotiations with American envoys. President Donald Trump decided he had had enough of waiting for the Shia Islamic theocracy to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, as promised to the ayatollah, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or whoever […]

A jury on Wednesday found Ticketmaster's parent company Live Nation to be guilty of running a monopoly over large venues across the U.S.

The president should be smart enough to understand that religious leaders answer to a higher authority than him.  

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will testify before the House Education and Workforce Committee Friday morning on the administration's priorities for health care. Kennedy faced back-to-back hearings before two other House committees on Thursday — his first appearances on Capitol Hill in 2026 — where he faced questions on President...