While Congress remains shut down, the people have been left to fend for themselves, which is really nothing new; it’s been some time since the U.S. government actually solved issues Americans care about. Though the stock market continues to soar, many other economic signs continue to point towards a recession, and an increasing number of people […]

China’s embargo on exports of key rare earth minerals poses a serious threat to the U.S. economy, defense capabilities, and technological edge. We rely on imports for strategic defense minerals, and China has cornered the market, controlling around 70% of rare earth mining and over 90% of processing and magnet production, which are indispensable for […]

Honduras may appear as a small country in the Western Hemisphere, but the election on Nov. 30 carries outsize strategic weight. At stake is whether Honduras becomes a robust U.S. partner in hemispheric security and trade or drifts into strategic failure via external leverage and weak governance. The main candidate associated with continuity of the […]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said this week that he’d “be lying” if he said he wasn’t thinking about running for president in 2028. In an interview taped Thursday, CBS News’s Robert Costa asked Newsom about the prospect of running for president and whether it’s “fair to say, after the 2026 midterms, you're going to...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday that air traffic controllers “are wearing thin” amid the ongoing government shutdown. “The controllers are wearing thin,” Duffy told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. “And again, they’re taking second jobs, they’re out there looking, ‘Can I drive Uber, can I find another source of income to...

Venezuela is the best example of a criminal organization behaving like a state, rather than the other way around. 

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) on Sunday characterized the redistricting efforts across the country as a battle between Republicans and Democrats “trying to out-cheat each other.” In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the actor and fitness enthusiast sharply criticized his own state of California for going down the same path as...

Scientists have been searching for radio signals from hypothetical alien civilizations using radio telescopes for decades.

Despite earlier indications, we're getting close to setting our clocks back an hour.

The Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) website has placed an advisory blaming Senate Democrats for the impending absence of food assistance benefits on its website.  Starting Nov. 1, it is likely that over 40 million low-income beneficiaries will not receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) aid. The USDA, which runs the program, is threatening to withhold...