U.S. seizure of Russian tanker marks rare escalation in sanctions enforcement against "dark fleet," but experts say move unlikely to trigger confrontation.

Minnesota teacher program allegedly restricts eligibility to BIPOC applicants only, sparking federal law violation concerns from education watchdog group.

Following the Trump administration’s clampdown on Afghan immigrant visa processing, new developments may have left U.S. allies with no further hope of accessing the Special Immigrant Visa program. Shawn VanDiver, president of #AfghanEvac, told me that as of the start of the year, he is aware of more than a dozen visa applicants who were denied from […]

While you were sleeping off your residual New Year’s hangovers the first wee Saturday hours of 2026, President Donald Trump started his military decapitation of Venezuela’s communist dictatorship. And while you were still sleeping, the president ended it, seizing and arresting accused criminal drug trafficker Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia in fewer than 2 […]

Seattle has a new socialist mayor and new progressive leadership, which means there will be a lot of well-meaning disasters and misplaced priorities that make life in the city worse, especially when it comes to the criminal justice system. Seattle already had its first debacle of the year with a change in directives on how […]

The U.S. government saw a problem. The U.S. government spent 20 years creating a solution to that problem at a significant burden to the people. The U.S. government made certain that this burdensome solution in no way solves the problem. This story, which has probably played out a thousand times in the last century, is […]

The shooting death of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, could have been easily avoided. Instead of telling his constituents that the state of Minnesota was at war with the federal government, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) could have cooperated with federal law enforcement. Instead of banning federal agents from city property and accusing Immigration […]

Twenty years ago, I spent a couple of weeks in Afghanistan with Britain’s Royal Marines. Operating largely under British command in Helmand was a Danish contingent made up largely of special forces. The Marines had nothing but praise for their Danish allies, who were in some of the toughest firefights and who suffered the highest […]

“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism,” socialist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani pledged in his inaugural address. Etymologically, “collectivism” has its roots among late-19th-century Marxists. The collectivists were the ones who ran the gulags. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn will tell you there was nothing warm about the winters in Ekıbastūz. […]

Gov. Tim Walz’s (D-MN) announcement that he will no longer seek reelection this fall was characteristically unimpressive. Yes, he recited a statement that included the words, “the buck stops with me,” which offered a patina of personal responsibility for the outrageous fraud scandals over which he’s presided as Minnesota’s chief executive. But the phony mea culpa […]