America’s cultural foundations are cracking. Marriage has been redefined and weakened, the family cast aside as outdated, and traditional ideas of manhood attacked as toxic. The result is a nation of lonely, disconnected individuals — unhappier, less stable, and increasingly unable to sustain the free institutions that made America exceptional. Timothy Goeglein’s new book, What […]
In the early 2010s, I was sitting in a park in north Tehran with an Iranian intelligence officer who didn’t know I had infiltrated his operation. He asked me a question: Do you know how to boil a frog? If you throw it into boiling water, it jumps out. But if you place it in […]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would appoint academics and players in chemical and other industries and additional scientists to its Science Advisory Board (SAB). The new appointments come more than a year after the administration “reset” the board, dismissing the scientists who were on it. This board is made up of outside scientists who provide scientific...
Optimism and confusion were intermingled on Friday as President Trump suggested an end to the conflict in Iran was within reach, even as many of his claims were met with silence or murmurs of dissent from Tehran. The war is at an inflection point, seven weeks after it was launched by the United States and...
Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) on Thursday alluded to President Trump's since-deleted image of himself resembling Jesus Christ when she slammed the impact that the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran has had on costs in the U.S., prompting her to say the president can "f--- his a--." Kamlager-Dove said in a video taken by MediasTouch reporter Pablo...
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick blasted Canada’s trade strategy, stating “they suck,” during Semafor’s World Economy Summit on Friday. “That is the worst strategy I’ve ever heard,” Lutnick told Semafor’s Ben Smith, referring to a suggestion from Canada’s former trade chief that the country could benefit from slow-walking trade negotiations with the U.S. amid mounting political...
The Washington Post’s editorial board rebuked President Trump’s threats to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, calling the feud a “pointless standoff that the president will lose.” “The question is how much he spooks markets and damages his own political standing before this is over,” the board wrote in an opinion published Wednesday. Trump has...
Former President Obama is ramping up pressure in Virginia to have voters support the state's redistricting measure and give Democratic candidates a stronger chance in the November midterm elections, telling Virginians, "we're counting on you." ABC News obtained the new video of Obama reminding Old Dominion voters that "early voting is underway" with turnout so...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday that the Trump administration is looking into whether there may be a link among nearly a dozen American scientists who have reportedly died or gone missing in the past almost three years. Leavitt wrote in a post on social platform X that the White House is working...