On paper, the National Environmental Policy Act sounds like a good idea. Passed in 1970, the same year Earth Day was created, NEPA requires all federal agencies to conduct an “Environmental Impact Statement” for every action taken that might affect the environment. So if the Department of Transportation wants to build a highway, it has […]
Next month, NATO’s most senior officials and prominent practitioners will convene in Washington, D.C. The timing is critical. The alliance has been around for 75 years, and the threats to it have gone through major changes. During the last three years, especially, Russia and China have been increasingly aggressive in their efforts to undermine U.S. […]
For years, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has vowed to bring school choice to Texas families. Thanks to a runoff election that went in his favor this year, he’s now claiming he’s certain he’ll be able to make good on that promise. Will Texans have education options in the next year or could there still be […]
During the annual Congressional Baseball Game, in which Republicans humbled Democrats in a 31-11 win, left-wing activists reminded everyone that woke ideology only breeds chaos. Anti-Israel protesters disrupted the national anthem and climate change activists leaped over the stands to storm the field, failing to get very far. The climate activists, representing Climate Defiance, a […]
The Black Lives Matter movement does not have many legislative accomplishments. But the passage of Proposition 47 in California in the wake of Michael Brown’s death in 2014 is one of them. It has been a complete and predicted disaster, and California voters are now trying to repeal it with another ballot proposition this year. […]
President Joe Biden said Thursday that he will not use his presidential powers to lessen the eventual sentence that his son Hunter will receive for his federal felony conviction on gun crimes.
Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, on Thursday endorsed former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan in his Senate race in the deep-blue state.
No one is likely to accuse Netflix’s new limited series Eric of a lack of ambition. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and created by British playwright and TV veteran Abi Morgan (River, The Split), it fairly crackles with aspirational energy. The problem is the series’s utter inability to find a coherent tone. Imagine Mrs. Doubtfire embroiled in […]
Sometimes, there’s a stupid sort of contest among soldiers. I’ll call it the “Hardcore Olympics.” Soldiers and veterans will tease each other or argue about who had the toughest job or roughest deployment. At its worst, the Hardcore Olympics will have infantry guys proclaiming, “If you ain’t infantry, you ain’t nothing.” I wish those guys […]