President Donald Trump is irrationally exuberant about rebuilding Venezuela’s economy and its oil industry. The reality on the ground is far less encouraging. Venezuela is a broken nation-state. Over the past decade, its economy has contracted by roughly 75%. The country’s institutions have collapsed, and its currency is effectively worthless after years of hyperinflation. Rebuilding Venezuela’s […]

The lynchpin of the Democratic Party’s control over California is not elected officials but the million-plus members of government unions who collectively send more than a billion dollars a year to union leaders to maintain political dominance. However much Democrats may believe they run Sacramento, moments of conflict reveal where power truly lies. This is […]

President Trump, in an interview with The New York Times, said the U.S. could be in control of Venezuela for years.  “I would say much longer,” Trump told The Times in a two-hour interview published Thursday, when asked if the U.S. would oversee Venezuela for months, a year or longer.  He added, “Only time will tell."...

If upheld by the Supreme Court, as seems likely, the challenge to Section 2 would turn the Voting Rights Act on its head.

House Republicans, in a rare show of defiance on Thursday, will take up votes on measures openly challenging President Trump and conference leaders. The lower chamber will weigh a move to override Trump's veto of two bipartisan, uncontroversial bills caught in political crosshairs. It will also vote to extend the expired Obamacare subsidies, an effort...

The call came in around 1:45 p.m. after nearby residents heard what they described as a “very loud, thunderous boom.” 

The Minneapolis woman fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer on Wednesday was a mother and new to the city, The Associated Press reported. Renee Nicole Macklin Good, whose death has sparked widespread outrage in the last 24 hours, was 37 years old and had three children. Originally from Colorado, her move...

The Biden-era policy of isolating one of the world’s largest suppliers of rare earths only keeps strengthening China’s hand.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) says that a U.S. military invasion of Greenland would be “weapons-grade stupid” and he doesn’t think that President Trump or Secretary of State Marco Rubio will attempt such a move despite tough talk from some White House officials. “Let me give you my perspective. Even a modestly intelligent ninth grader knows...

They’re backpedaling fast, because the picture isn’t pretty.