At 5:22 a.m. on Thursday, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the United States would hit Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT.” Less than 90 minutes later came a second post: Over 100 million barrels of oil had passed through the Strait of Hormuz under American control, not Iranian. Then a third, within the same […]
On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump threatened to hit Iran “VERY HARD,” seize its main oil export terminal at Kharg Island, and take “total control” of its energy industry. By the afternoon, he’d canceled it all on indications that Iran had approved “discussions and final points” toward a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz […]
Lawmakers on both the left and right are increasingly blaming pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) — the intermediaries that negotiate prescription drug prices between manufacturers, insurers, and pharmacies — for rising healthcare costs. Last month, a bipartisan group of legislators reintroduced the Patients Before Monopolies Act, which would prohibit companies that own PBMs from also owning […]
In February, at least two congressional delegations visited Israel, as well as Judea and Samaria. Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Sean Casten (D-IL) went with J Street. Others went with the U.S. Israel Education Association. Only one group seemed to go with open eyes and open minds. Members of the USIEA delegation met with Israeli […]
The Sunshine State is raining on the college sports parade. The legislature erased funding for “preeminent” universities in a special session, following an aggressive fiscal trend that reduced subsidies from $100 million two years ago to $40 million last year. Schools have ostensibly used preeminence dollars to hire faculty, expand student services, and boost campus […]
When my June 6 Fox News column ran about finding nearly $30,000 in unclaimed money for my cousin, I expected readers to be surprised. I did not expect the flood. Within days, thousands of emails and comments poured in. Some readers had found money. Some wanted to know how to search. Some were trying to […]
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and took 251 hostages in the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust. In the months that followed, Google searches for the Quran surged, TikTok Islamic content racked up billions of views, and a noticeable stream of young progressives, many of them women, publicly recited the “shahada.” […]
Every American president hopes he will be the one to solve the Iran problem through diplomacy. So far, none has succeeded. Now, President Donald Trump appears to be considering another agreement with Tehran. Before Washington celebrates a diplomatic breakthrough, it should remember a simple lesson: The Islamic Republic has spent decades using negotiations not to […]