Diplomatic paralysis is no longer an accident at the State Department — it is an addiction. For generations, professional American diplomats have treated Middle Eastern foreign policy as a group-hug exercise in consensus-building, submissively routing every possible regional realignment through Cairo or Riyadh. This institutional obsession with securing an Arab League quorum actively paralyzes the […]
Republicans did something rare in Washington. They passed a bipartisan permitting reform bill through the House. The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 would speed up construction of the pipelines, power plants, and grid upgrades this country needs. It should be an easy win, but Senate Democrats have put in a poison pill […]
As in 2024, with polls open for the midterm elections, the cost of living remains voters’ top priority. As for investors, their primary concern in the aftermath of the Federal Reserve’s first rate hike since 2023 isn’t inflation in particular. Rather, it’s the federal government’s deficit. It’s the classic good-news-bad-news dichotomy of the economy approaching […]
The academic and feminist author Camille Paglia once wrote that “Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.” So it might be that leaving the story of the now-infamous “Cornell Seven” alleged rape case up to leftists and many legacy media outlets is like letting the accused write the […]
The problem with President Ronald Reagan being called “the Great Communicator” is that it showed how much worse other Republicans were at political messaging. The Gipper would not have earned the compliment if the GOP wasn’t so bad at it. It still is. Democrats are far more often successful at framing debate, not least because […]
Seven years before Zohran Mamdani upset Andrew Cuomo on the strength of his relentless messaging about the obscene cost of living in the Big Apple, another New York Democrat shocked the world by centering the very same issue in her own campaign. “We’re having an affordability crisis in New York City,” a young Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez […]
After 50 years of protecting life by preventing mass taxpayer funding of abortions, the Hyde Amendment is increasingly under threat. With Hyde’s protections annually threatened by left-wing activists in Congress, it’s time to make this long-standing policy permanent. Enacted on Sept. 30, 1976, as the first major pro-life legislative victory on the national level following […]