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Russia’s Arctic drone blitz demands Trump’s response in Greenland

Recent satellite imagery reveals that Russia built a massive 0.9-square-kilometer launch complex in just six weeks, rapidly transforming an empty field in the Rostov Oblast into a military facility the size of 126 soccer pitches. Near the Millerovo air base, the site features eight platforms for jet-powered drones that can reach speeds up to 600 […]

Egypt’s cold balance in Trump’s Iran war

While international news cameras and cable networks focus on the explosive headlines of the U.S.-Iran war, a quieter, more calculating operation is unfolding behind closed doors. Legacy media coverage primarily tracks overt hard power. It frames the conflict around immediate kinetic strikes, domestic election impacts, or public posturing surrounding the secretive U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding. […]

Iran mission creep starts with ‘meaningful reduction’

One word can move a red line. In February, President Donald Trump was asked whether he would accept anything short of zero uranium enrichment in Iran. His answer was unequivocal: “We don’t want any enrichment. We don’t want enrichment.” Then came Vice President JD Vance. In an Oct. 6 interview with Reuters, Vance said Iran […]

Pittsburgh’s Gecko Robotics expands its Navy contract to $300 million

PITTSBURGH — In March, Jake Loosararian stood in the middle of what was once a bustling Sears department store, now his company’s headquarters, and talked about what a $71 million Navy contract could mean for a robotics company that had chosen to stay in western Pennsylvania, as the Washington Examiner reported at the time. Seven […]

France on fire — a dangerous inflection point for the West

When they see immigrant thugs looting and trashing cities, social media commentators sometimes mock the rioters as young professionals, doctors, architects, etc. It is intended as an irony-laden riposte to fatuous left-wing arguments that diversity makes the West stronger and mass immigration from alien cultures brings talent that grows the economy. A similar barb, specifically […]

France’s threat to the US’s economic recovery

Before deriving pleasure from France’s present economic and political turmoil, President Donald Trump might want to consider that France’s current bond market crisis could have serious adverse spillover effects for the U.S. economy. This is not least because France is Europe’s second-largest economy and has a $4 trillion public debt, some eight times the size […]

AOC’s gender warmongering

If Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) runs for president in 2028, expect her campaign to be an all-out war on men. Speaking in Michigan with Abdul el Sayed last week, Ocasio-Cortez falsely accused Republicans of wanting to keep women out of college, just weeks after she lied about Cornell University’s response to sexual assault allegations at […]

Trump approval at record low 31 percent ahead of midterms: Survey

President Trump's approval rating on Monday reached a new record low with two weeks left until the November midterm elections, when Republicans could lose the House and Senate to Democrats. The latest polling from Reuters/Ipsos shows the president with a 31 percent approval rating, down 1 point since the previous poll two weeks ago and...

How did being a good teammate become so controversial?

Athletes cannot be celebrated for speaking out when their views fit comfortably within worldviews compatible with the establishment, but then become professionally expendable when they say something that makes others uncomfortable.

Inside the monthslong federal investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar

Scott Johnson, a retired Minnesota attorney and co-founder of Powerline Blog, first began looking into Omar in 2016.

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