We are Americans, and we could destroy any country that mistakingly tried to go to war with us. We’re proud about that, but we also value our privileged position: protected from most of the world by two oceans. America’s political class has always been more internationalist than the populace — more open-borders, more ideologically free-trade, […]

President Donald Trump said he wants to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin soon to close in on a peace settlement for the war Russia started by invading Ukraine. However, Trump’s secondary interest is to establish a more effective relationship between the United States and Russia. Both ambitions are worth pursuing. A more effective U.S.-Russia relationship might lead to new and enforceable nuclear arms […]

President Trump on Thursday said he would consider imposing stiff sanctions, taxes and high tariffs on Russia in order to end its nearly three-year war with Ukraine.

President Trump re-upped his claim that Russia stole the plan for hypersonic missiles during the Obama administration.

Utah lawmakers advanced a bill Thursday that experts say would establish one of the most restrictive labor laws in the country as Republicans seek to curb the political influence of unions serving teachers and other public service professionals.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on artificial intelligence Thursday that will revoke past government policies his order says "act as barriers to American AI innovation."

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asked Congress on Thursday to give the state $11 billion in taxpayer money to reimburse it for what it's spent in recent years plugging gaps in the border left by the Biden administration.

Yellowstone County in Montana let the federal government know it can use the county's expo center to hold illegal immigrants for deportation.

Contrary to the attitudes of many of my colleagues in the academy, academic freedom and independence are not rights or entitlements. They result from a political bargain and one that has become more fraught in recent decades. Essentially, the bargain goes like this: Academics will independently cultivate, curate, expand, and disseminate knowledge from the sciences […]

One of my favorite things to do when I have an evening all to myself is to sit with a book at the bar at my favorite restaurant. It’s an old-fashioned, low-key kind of pleasure — the very best kind, in my experience — and when I was younger, it’s exactly what I imagined being […]