As the United States and Russia begin negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, I can’t shake off an episode that, in retrospect, was the first step down the slippery slope leading to war. In the summer of 1992, I took my friend, Dmitro Markov, then press counselor at the Ukraine Embassy in Washington, D.C., […]
President Donald Trump has only been in office for a month, yet he’s already decisively fulfilled many of his campaign promises. Two of his top priorities, signing executive orders that tear down the citadels of radical gender ideology and critical race theory implanted within the federal government, have been met with screaming opposition from the […]
MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend criticized Democrats who protested at President Trump’s joint address to Congress by holding up signs, arguing the visuals “are not landing.” Democratic lawmakers held up signs during Trump’s address that read various statements including, “False,” “Save Medicaid,” and “Musk Steals.” In a post on X, Sanders Townsend likened the circular...
Most people watching President Trump’s first joint address to Congress approved of his speech according to snap polls. Seventy-six percent of people approved of the president's remarks, while 23 percent disapproved as reported Wednesday in CBS News and YouGov survey results. Forty-four percent of speech watchers viewed Trump’s remarks as somewhat positive, according to CNN’s...
Greenland Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede again pushed back on President Trump's proposal that the U.S. acquire the Arctic island, claiming in a post early Wednesday that "Greenland is ours." Egede denounced Trump's claims during his joint address to Congress that the U.S. would take over the territory owned by Denmark "one way to another,"...
Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) opened up about the moment he was escorted out of the House chamber Tuesday evening, saying he protested at President Trump’s joint address to Congress because “he needs to save Medicaid.” Speaking with reporters in the Capitol after being removed from Trump's speech, Green said he was protesting the president’s sweeping...
America’s real power is the ideas that it exports, the culture it projects and the future it continues to invent. As long as America keeps leading in these areas, its influence isn’t going anywhere.
In today’s issue: President Trump used a sweeping 100-minute address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday to rally Americans behind his tariff-and-tax-cuts plan for the economy while blaming former President Biden for inflated egg prices, a surge of illegal migrants and escalating deficits. Forty-three days into his second term, Trump delivered his own report...
President Trump’s plan for a strategic crypto reserve has stirred mixed feelings within the cryptocurrency industry. The digital assets space has largely welcomed Trump’s mission to boost the industry, which faced heavy regulatory scrutiny under the Biden administration. But his recent announcement to form a cryptocurrency reserve with assets other than bitcoin — the most...