In Netflix’s House of Cards, Frank Underwood never storms anything. He has no use for tanks or mobs. He arranges things so that, when the moment comes, the rules themselves hand him power. Sworn in as vice president without facing a single voter, he turns to the camera: “One heartbeat away from the presidency and […]
The controversy surrounding Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) raises profoundly troubling questions about political accountability, immigration oversight, and the standards of integrity expected of those entrusted with public office. How did a Somali-born refugee rise from the Minnesota legislature to the halls of Congress while serious questions about her marital history, tax filings, and immigration documentation […]
Calls for chaos and disruption, along with accusations that President Donald Trump wants to “steal Election Day,” were key messaging points discussed at a training organized by left-wing activists last month to prepare for the 2026 elections. “Viva la revolution” and “it’s time to f*** s*** up” were some of the phrases uttered by those […]
WASHINGTON, Pennsylvania — On South Main Street stands the house where attorney David Bradford, a leader of the Whiskey Rebellion, lived from 1788 to 1794. In July 1794, some 400 armed men, most from Washington County, laid waste to a tax inspector’s house outside Pittsburgh. People here have distrusted distant power ever since. They have […]
When Pastor Ezra Jin appeared at Washington’s Ronald Reagan Institute on Oct. 21, his presence represented a significant, if incomplete, victory for religious freedom. The founder of China’s influential Zion Church had spent nearly nine months in detention before President Donald Trump’s personal intervention with Xi Jinping helped secure his release in July. Yet eight […]
The sinking of the Contship Jet — a commercial container ship chartered by Israel’s ZIM Integrated Shipping Services — by three kamikaze naval drones off Bulgaria’s coast should serve as a stark wake-up call for Western naval planners. Carrying 421 containers from Israel to Romania, the vessel was hit 17 nautical miles off Cape Kaliakra, […]
With fewer than 24 hours until Election Day, I did a deep dive into the final sweep of available results for the U.S. Senate. The New York Times conceded in publishing its last battleground polls that registered white Democrats were 30% likelier to respond than registered white Republicans, indicating an undersampling bias that, if systemic, […]
This Saturday in synagogues worldwide, Jews will recount the Biblical story of Abraham’s negotiations with the elders of Hebron to buy a burial place for his wife Sarah. But the horse-trading in the backrooms of Israeli politics will make Honest Abe look like a guy buying retail in a suburban shopping mall. They say 10 […]
About a month before Georgia’s Rose Revolution in 2003, an order came down from the minister of state security. It was verbal. We were to destroy everything we had on the opposition, above all on Mikheil Saakashvili’s National Movement. Classified documents were torn out of the files by hand. The secret registry altered its logs […]
Pope Leo XIV has become the first pope known to vote in a U.S. general election. The Vatican confirmed that the Chicago-born pontiff submitted a mail-in ballot for the midterm elections in Illinois, invoking the right and duty of citizens to participate in democracy. There is no apparent legal violation, and no reason to question […]