Presidents Day protests against President Donald Trump were just noise. They would not have seemed so disconnected from reality otherwise. What we saw was a mass of people who will not get on board with decidedly common and voter-approved motions from the president. Rapid-fire adjustments and reallocations are no shocking play, especially along the arc […]
President Donald Trump wants the Panama Canal back. However, he might be walking into his own version of the Cuban missile crisis. Amid the heated exchanges between the United States and Panamanian presidents, the diplomatic twist that hasn’t been reported is that Chinese state-owned entities COSCO and China Merchants are reportedly trying to buy a […]
The United States cannot deter or defeat China in a war over Taiwan if U.S. naval and air forces are spread thinly across Europe, the Middle East, and China. The U.S. can deter Russia by maintaining Army deployments in Eastern Europe and nuclear strike preeminence. The U.S. can deter Iran by responding to acts of […]
Saturday Night Live is often afflicted with horribly biased and unfunny sketches. But Kenan Thompson’s recurring Black Jeopardy isn’t one of them, and conservatives outraged by Tom Hanks’s appearance on the sketch during the show’s 50th-anniversary special need to get over themselves. If you watch just the Hanks appearance from Sunday and are ignorant about […]
A new article published this week in The Lancet medical journal found that more than half of the world's population lacks access to safe and affordable medical oxygen services, and most people outside of high-income countries go without adequate oxygen services for their medical conditions. As the Lancet Global Health Commission noted in its report...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s meeting with his Russian counterpart in Riyadh on Tuesday marked a major shift in U.S. relations with the country, ending a policy of isolation imposed after Russia’s full-scale invasion against Ukraine in February 2022. U.S. and Russian officials left meetings signaling a reset in the bilateral relationship, though no concrete...
Chasten Buttigieg, who is married to former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, called out Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy for taking two of his sons on a presidential delegation to the Daytona 500 this past weekend. Duffy, a former Fox News host, posted a video Sunday to the social platform X with his sons, Patrick and John-Paul,...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is giving the state of West Virginia the authority to approve projects that will store captured carbon dioxide deep underground. Coal and gas-fired power plants and other industrial polluters can capture their emissions of the planet-warming gas rather than release them into the atmosphere. But the captured carbon dioxide then...
A local New York legislator said Tuesday she is jumping into the race for Rep. Mike Lawler’s (R-N.Y.) seat in an attempt “to flip” it. “I’m a County Legislator, former school board VP, and working mom with a proven record of delivering bipartisan wins for the Hudson Valley,” Rockland County Legislator Beth Davidson (D) said...