The United States is a debtor nation and the world’s largest debtor country. The Congressional Budget Office projected the debt-to-GDP ratio for the federal government would exceed 100% in the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, 2025. The CBO also predicted the debt would rise to 118% of GDP within a decade. This means […]

Containing Iran’s Islamic theocracy, especially as it approaches nuclear weapons development, is rightly a top foreign policy priority for the second Trump administration. There’s a strong economic component to the White House’s plan for keeping Teheran on a short leash. While the Biden administration plied the mullahs with cash, Team Trump is returning to its […]

Some of humanity’s most stunning achievements are scientific, and science is rightly venerated for helping people live better, longer, more varied, and fulfilling lives. Science can do a lot. In the minds of cynical opportunists, it can even be used to end an argument: “Follow the science.” “I am the science.” “The science is settled.” […]

Theater is a potent medium for showing us the truth of what people do to one another.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the country is getting “sick and tired” of tech billionaire Elon Musk and slammed Musk’s accusation that Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) is a traitor for visiting Ukraine as “beyond the pale.” “It’s disgusting,” Sanders said of Musk's criticism of Kelly, a decorated former naval aviator. “Kelly is a military guy...

Giving Americans an “economic upside in the future of Ukraine” will never be worth the security downsides.

President Trump said he would be buying a “brand new” Tesla to support his senior adviser Elon Musk, as the stock market shows shares of the electric car company tumbling. “To Republicans, Conservatives, and all great Americans, Elon Musk is ‘putting it on the line’ in order to help our Nation, and he is doing...

The funding freeze has sparked panic among thousands of scholars who area stranded outside their home countries without clarity on the future of their programs or the money needed to support themselves.

Project 2025, a 922-page blueprint for a second Trump administration prepared by the Heritage Foundation, has been implemented by Trump's administration, including firing 30,000 federal employees, shutting down the Department of Education, gutting the Environmental Protection Agency, and imposing tariffs on major trading partners.

Canada's ambassador to the United States said 99% of products traded between the two nations are tariff-free.