In 2013, I boarded a plane at London’s Heathrow Airport, ready for the 11-hour journey to San Francisco to begin a career in software engineering. This moment was the culmination of a yearslong goal to move to the United States. Why? Because I wanted to live in the U.S., contribute to the U.S., and be […]
Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, America is done trading strength for dependency. For too long, we’ve relied on foreign markets for critical goods, watched our economy bleed from staggering trade deficits, and left ourselves vulnerable to the whims of global competitors. The result: a weaker America with less leverage, mounting debt, and growing national security threats. We […]
America started attracting immigrants long before it became a country. Already in the late 1600s and early 1700s, there were newcomers from Germany, Ulster, France, etc. What made them immigrants? They willingly moved to a place, in this case colonies, that had been established and settled by others. To succeed, they roughly assimilated to the […]
Flexible work is highly valued by Americans today, and it motivates people. This Small Business Week, an encouraging new poll revealed the electorate‘s views of independent work and why it’s important to preserve self-employment in America. Policymakers would be wise to stand with the self-employed, freelancers, and gig workers, not against them. In a newly released poll, wide margins […]
In a striking example of Iran’s continuing terrorist threat to the West, United Kingdom authorities arrested eight men in two separate operations on Saturday. The first operation saw five men, including four Iranians, detained in five different areas of England. They were arrested on suspicion that they intended to “target a specific premises.” Those premises […]
Immigration policy should serve the national interest and the common good of Americans. This means that immigrants themselves should be patriotically assimilated into the American way of life and that our system of immigration should be consistent with protecting national security. Commonsense measures to strengthen national security within immigration law have been proposed for years […]
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) recently ripped into progressives for opposing Medicaid reform. “Medicaid is meant to be a state-federal partnership,” Cassidy, who has an M.D., wrote on X. “States are supposed to pay for 40% of the cost. Most states are paying for less than 15%. … People should not be asking what is the […]
Congress is facing pressure to ban congressional insider trading, with bipartisan support growing for legislation to prohibit members of Congress and their spouses from playing in the stock market.
Former national security adviser John Botlon said he thinks President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff is a “disaster in the making.” Bolton joined CNN’s Kasie Hunt over the weekend to discuss former national security Mike Waltz’s ouster from the position, Trump tapping Secretary of State Marco Rubio to do the job in the interim and...
A coalition of attorneys general in 19 states and the District of Columbia is suing the Trump administration over its “unconstitutional dismantling” of the Department of Health and Human Services. The lawsuit seeks to stop the “restructuring” overseen by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., arguing the effort has gutted the agency and destroyed life-saving programs,...