On Wednesday, China will mark the 76th anniversary of the founding of its People’s Republic. As in years past, Chinese President Xi Jinping will stand before the iconic Tiananmen Gate under the looming portrait of Mao Zedong and deliver a carefully crafted speech. The message will be familiar: The Communist Party has lifted hundreds of […]

Portland leaders are so concerned with “resisting” President Donald Trump that they would rather allow criminals to openly defy the law than make Portland a functioning city. Democrats in Oregon are crying foul over the National Guard being deployed to Portland, where antifa is again leading violent “protests.” The Democratic mayor of Portland is dismissing videos of […]

I’ve been an American for less than three hours as I sit down to write. I drove with my American wife to a nondescript low-rise office building on the outskirts of Baltimore where, along with people from 24 other countries, I swore the naturalization oath of allegiance.  We were each given our certificates, plus a […]

IOWA’S STUNNING, EMBARRASSING IMMIGRATION MESS. On May 16, 2023, the Des Moines, Iowa, school board hired Ian Roberts to be its new superintendent. Roberts, the first African American ever chosen to run the city’s schools, formally began the job on July 1, 2023. By the end of July, the board got some surprising news about their new […]

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. Government shutdowns are Kabuki theater. And the next showing is […]

Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest work, One Battle After Another, is a triumphant and ostentatious spectacle about morally repugnant monsters. “The message is clear,” declares one of its pseudo-protagonists in the opening scene, “free borders and free bodies.” Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Bob Ferguson, a burnt-out radical whose paranoia and half-functioning memory cells are all that remain […]

Republican lawmakers would get a larger share of blame for a government shutdown than their Democratic counterparts if lawmakers don't come to an agreement, a poll released Tuesday found. The NPR/PBS News/Marist poll, conducted last week, found that 38 percent of respondents would blame Republicans, while 27 percent would blame Democrats and 31 percent would...

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday aimed at using artificial intelligence to improve research and treatments for childhood cancer. The order builds on a 2019 database established by Trump that collects data on childhood cancer. That order directs agencies to use artificial intelligence to analyze information in that database to accelerate research and...

The Trump administration on Tuesday announced plans to launch TrumpRx.com, an online platform that it says will direct Americans to lower-priced drugs. The announcement came one day after President Trump's deadline for drugmakers to comply with his "Most Favored Nation" (MFN) executive order, which included a mandate for companies to establish direct-to-consumer for medicines, cutting...

Voices on the left and the right are questioning the strength of former FBI Director James Comey's federal indictment, arguing prosecutors will be challenged in winning a conviction. Comey was indicted Thursday on two counts, with a grand jury taking the unusual step of rejecting one of the proposed charges before approving the two-page indictment. The slim court filing...